NEARLY 700 MILES AN HOUR
DE HAVILLAND’S LAST FLIGHT (Rec. 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 13. Geoffrey de Havilland is now believed to have been flying at a speed “approaching 700 miles an hour,” when the Swallow jet-plane broke up in the air over the Thames Estuary in SeiJtember, says the aviation correspondent of the “Daily Mail,” quoting the opinion of experts: who have been studying evidence concerning the disaster. The De Havilland aircraft company now reveal that Captain De Havilland had fown the plane at 660 miles an hour shortly before the crash. He planned on the last flight “to dive the aircraft at something under 10,000 feet at a speed closely approaching the speed of sound,” to check its controllability in these conditions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 55, 14 December 1946, Page 5
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