1,000 M.P.H. PLANNED
SCRAPPING OF EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT EXPENDITURE OF £150,000 MADE London, April 2. After three years of work by inathematicians and aircraft technicians and the expenditure of £150,000 the Miles 52 aircraft, which was to have been the fastest in the world, has been broken up and sold for a few pounds for scrap. It was in 1943 that the Ministry of Aircraft Production issued a contract to the Miles aircraft company to build the M 52 so as to take immediate advantage of Britain s secret development of jet-motors and to solve the problems of faster-than-sound flight. It was to fly at 1000 miles an hour.
In February, 194 b, however, when the detail of the design was 90 per cent completed, construction of the fuselage was almost finished and the wing construction was well advanced, the Ministry cancelled the contract on the ground that the life of a pilot should not be risked.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14636, 3 April 1948, Page 3
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