Nicholas Goodhart was born in Inkpen, Berkshire back in 1919. He was educated at Miss White’s Kintbury. He continued his education at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and the Royal Naval Engineering College at Keyham. After graduation, he served as an engineering lieutenant. He saw action in the evacuation of Crete when the ship he was on was hit by two 1,000 pound bombs. For the next two years he was assigned to escorting convoys to Malta. In 1944, after pilot training he joined the Fleet Air Arm where he flew Grumman Hellcat’s. By 1953, he was promoted to commander. He died in 2011 at 91.What you may not know about Rear Admiral Hilary Charles Nicholas Goodhart is that he invented the mirror-sight deck landing system for aircraft carriers. That same basic function of the lighting i...
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