AIRSPEED RECORD
ATTEMPT BY DE II AV ILL AND MACHINE (Rec 10.35 a.m.) , LONDON, Sept. 22. A new attempt to raise Britain’s airspeed record to the highest figure possible under the present limits of compressibility is likely in the coming week when a de Havilland Swallow will attempt to improve the time of ihe Gloster Meteors over the Tangmere course. ’ The de Havilland experimental aircraft, whose wings and tail fm have been swept back to reduce drag and delay the onset of -hock waves at the speed of sound is at present under test before being flown to Tangmere. . Geoffrey d? Havilland said. 11 1 did not believe the Swallow could do it I would not be making the attempt. The Swallow is a scale model ol the 25,0001 b jet airliner which de Havillands hope to operate. The new Vickers jet fighter, the Spiteful, is to attempt the world airspeed record at Tangmere in addition to the de Havilland.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 September 1946, Page 5
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