BOMBER CRASHES DURING TEST
BRITAIN’S NEW ATOM CARRIER
fiir fend trfished, in flames ftfi a test flight near Bournemouth, Hampshire, this afterhddri. The crew fit five bailed dut before the aircraft Mt thfe ground, but onfe was kilted. The Valiant, whwh Was fecfefttiy taken Off the secret list. was the ohly one of Its kind in BHtftih. It was likely to become the standard longrange and atom bomb carrier for the British and AtneHcah Ait FOVteS. The Vickers valiant, which was be* lieved to be Britain’s fastest bomber, had swept back wings. It was powered by four Rolls-Royce Avon turbo-jet engines.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26628, 14 January 1952, Page 7
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