SPEED IN THE AIR
3.30 P.M. EDITION
BRITISH PILOT’S ACHIEVEMENT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Times Cables.) Received July 3. 1 p.m. LONDON. July 2. The Times’s aeronautical expert states that when testing one of a 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 384 miles an hour at 15,000 feet. This is believed to represent the greatest velocity ever reached voluntarily with an aeroplane. Lieutenant Staniland continued to dive to 8000 feet, when the ’plane began gently to flatten out. ITe got it on an even keel before it reached 4000 feet. He later climbed to 19.730 feet in nine minutes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 181, 3 July 1931, Page 2
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