BRITAIN HAS NEW SECRET JET FIGHTER
(Rec. 9.50 a.m.) LON’bOX, Augusl 24. Britain's lalosl jet fighter. Hawker X 7/46. had iis first public Icsl a! a speed well over 600 miles an hour. Details of speed and range are secret, but it is believed, the plane can fly faster and further than any comparable jet aircraft. It is designed primarily as a carrierborne lighter and has folding wings.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 August 1948, Page 5
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