FIRST LANDING ON CARRIER
Jet-propelled Plane (7.30 p.m.) LONDON. December 4. De Havilland’s 540 miles an hour Vampire to-day beeame the first wholly jet-propelled aircraft to land on an aircraft-carrier. Lieutenant-Commander F. M. Brown, M.8.E.. D.S.C.. R.N.V.R. made four faultless landings and take-offs while H.M.S. Ocean rolled and pitched in a heavy ground swell off the Isle of Wight. The carrier had just been informed that the pilot had been ordered to remain at a Sussex airfield for more favourable conditions when the Vampire appeared and swept over the flight deck. The carrier immediately turned into the wind and Commander Brow’n made a perfect landing at 95 miles an hour. The Vampire stopped in 100 feet. In the take-offs the Vampire was airborne in half the flight deck’s length.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23376, 6 December 1945, Page 5
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