AIR SPEED RECORD TEST FLIGHTS
- . ♦- : on* r,,* i. LONDQN. October 31. nio^J^ 11 of f 2£. m the otherwise wf^L 8 ! 165 °? er Britaia covered the Heme Bay air speed record course *™ I J , * caus , u L g a cancellation of the final test flights. Weather Permitting, they will be held tomorrow. Revised figures of Group Captain Wilson's speeds in the Meteor Britannia yesterday show 601 miles an hour 2nn the ., first rua against the wind and 609 miles an hour down wind. The discrepancy between the revised times and those announced previously was aue to faulty timing apparatus.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24713, 2 November 1945, Page 3
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