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1957
1957 - 0337.PDF
339 ONE YEAR SUPREME A LITTLE over a year ago, on March 10, 1956, a Fairey F.D.2 supersonic research aircraft,powered with a Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet, secured the world's air speed record of 1,132 m.p.h. It was flown by Mr. Peter Twiss, a test pilot of the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd. In conjunctionwith Mr. R. L. Lickley, the company's technical director and chief engineer, Mr. Twiss recently described the development of the aircraft before the Royal Aeronautical Society, in a paperabstracted in our issues of February 22 and March 1. Notwithstanding gocd-natured American protestations that the U.S.A. could easily retrieve the record with the Lockheed F-104 fighter,Twiss's performance still stands supreme in the annals of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. We print this hitherto unpublished Flight photograph, showing the record-holder over Southern England, as a tribute to a splendid—and enduring—British achievement.
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