FAMOUS PILOT KILLED
Wing-Commander Stainforth (8.0.W.) RUGBY, September 30. The death in action as the result of recent air operations in the Middle East is announced of Wing-Commander G. IL Stainforth, A.F.C., who was a member of the Schneider Trophy team in 1931, and who in the same year set up what was then a world’s speed record of 407.5 miles an hour. Wing-Commander Stainforth commanded a squadron of night fighters and at the age of 43 years was the oldest fighter pilot engaged on active operations in the Middle East. He retired from the regular army in 1922, but entered the Royal Air Force the fol- , lowing year, when he became a flying instructor, and in 1928 he was posted to the high-speed flight, in which the Schneider pilots were trained. He had also been Royal Air Force rifle and revolver champion and in 1928 was in the “King’s Hundred” at Bisley.
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Southland Times, Issue 24864, 2 October 1942, Page 5
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