Former AST aviation students include: The Hon Mrs Victor Bruce, the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe; Amy Johnson, holder of records for flying to Australia and Japan, and Sir Alan Cobham, founder of the flying circus and the Cobham Company.
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First run in 1951 the engine was flight tested during 1953 using an Avro Lancaster provided by Air Service Training, the engine being installed underneath in a nacelle faired-in to the Lancaster's bomb bay.