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Sorley was a pilot with the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force during the First World War. In the 1930s he was instrumental in the creation of the specifications from which evolved both the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft. A senior commander during the Second World War, he founded the Empire Test Pilots’ School for training pilots in Canada and other overseas countries. He retired from the RAF in 1948 and joined De Havilland, where he assisted in the development of air-to-air missiles.