AIR RECORD BID
SWALLOW PLANE DE HAVILLAND CRAFT MAXIMUM SPEED SOUGHT (11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 22. A new attempt to raise Britain’s air speed record .to the highest figure possible under present limits of compressibility is likely in the coming week when a De Havilland Swallow will attempt to improve the time of the Gloster Meteors over the Tangmere course.
A De Havilland experimental aircraft, whose wings and tail fin are swept back to reduce the drag and delay the onset of shock waves at the speed of sound is at present under test before being flown to Tangmere. Mr. Geoffrey De Havilland said: “If I did not believe the Swallow could do it I would not be making the attempt-” The Swallow is a scale model of the 75,0001 b jet airliner the De Havilland Company hopes to operate. ‘
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22133, 23 September 1946, Page 5
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