SWOOP IN ARMY PLANE
384 MILES AN HOUR
STANILAND'S DIVE
(United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 3rd July, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 2nd July. "The Times" aeronautical correspondent says that in testing one of the batch of new British Fairey Firefly fighter aeroplanes, built for the Belgian Air Force, Flight-Lieutenant Staniland dived from a height of 22,000 feet and reached a speed of 38-1 miles an ■ hour at 15,000 feet. This is believed to represent the greatest velocity ever reached voluntarily with an aeroplane. Staniland continued the dive to 8000 feet, when he began gently to flatten out. He got to an even keel before he reached 4000 feet. Later he climbed to 19,750 feet in nine minutes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1931, Page 7
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117SWOOP IN ARMY PLANE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1931, Page 7
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