TREMENDOUS DIVE.
Spitfire Reaches Speed Up To 700 m.p.h. CLIMB AT 400 MILES AN HOUR (Received 11.30 a.m.) LOXDON, .Tantuiry 11. • The -Air Ministry announces that an K.A.K. pilot dived a Spitfire at a speed of from <>">0 to 7<W> miles an hour. His experience was accidental as tlie result of a temporary loss of consciousness owing to lack of oxygen at an altitude of 23.000 feet.
The pilot was unable to register the top speed, but after pulling the 'plane out of the dive he climbed vertically at 400 miles aa hour.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 10, 12 January 1940, Page 7
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93TREMENDOUS DIVE. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 10, 12 January 1940, Page 7
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