This was a 38% increase in the airspeed record, the US 822mph record was only 5 months earlier. By far the largest increase in airspeed since the Wright brothers.
My dad worked for Fairey at White Waltham where they built the FD1, FD2, Gyrodyne and Rotadyne. The hangar was a warehouse when I was last there in the 1980s. Britain summed up.
Unfortunately, despite Britain's great inventors & aircraft designers, there's always been complete nincompoops at the helm. Churchill's scientific advisor Prof. Lindemann said the Germans couldn't possibly have a rocket that could bombard London - gunpowder just doesn't have the necessary energy. Shortly after liq.O2/alcohol fueled V-2's rained down on London. Astronomer Royal Richard Wooley said "space travel is utter bilge" in 1956! Then there's the politicians. What chance did we have?
Super Stuff. This was the last time that Great Britain made her mark on the World Air-Speed Record. It was March 10th, 1956 and the people of Chichester in Sussex must have wondered what on earth that was ,flashing through the sky at 38,000 feet.
This was a 38% increase in the airspeed record, the US 822mph record was only 5 months earlier. By far the largest increase in airspeed since the Wright brothers.
A-may-ziiing.
maureenOWW 3 months ago
Another one of Englands heros who helped propell us to the top of the technological and engineering ladder RIP PETER TWISS
aussieskiff 6 months ago
This could have been the British Mirage if it hadn't been for the idiots at the air ministry.
Simwebby 1 year ago
@Simwebby Thats true but mirage is not better then the Typhoon.
TheLloydA1 9 months ago
Peter Twiss also stared in from Russia with Love helming one of the three Spectre boats supplied by Fairey Marine.
aussieskiff 1 year ago
THAT WAS MY GIRLFRIENDS UNCLE, and hes still alive YAy!
bartmzy12 1 year ago
My dad worked for Fairey at White Waltham where they built the FD1, FD2, Gyrodyne and Rotadyne. The hangar was a warehouse when I was last there in the 1980s. Britain summed up.
jellybellyterry 2 years ago
stuff of legend
chriscrow1 3 years ago
My dad was one of the ground crew!I still have a small model of this plane that he built when I was a very young child.
magicsupamoggie 3 years ago
GREAT Video!!
cajunhornet60 3 years ago
what happened to British leadership in engineering and technology?
freddiesound 4 years ago
Unfortunately, despite Britain's great inventors & aircraft designers, there's always been complete nincompoops at the helm. Churchill's scientific advisor Prof. Lindemann said the Germans couldn't possibly have a rocket that could bombard London - gunpowder just doesn't have the necessary energy. Shortly after liq.O2/alcohol fueled V-2's rained down on London. Astronomer Royal Richard Wooley said "space travel is utter bilge" in 1956! Then there's the politicians. What chance did we have?
Gruntol5 4 years ago
Super Stuff. This was the last time that Great Britain made her mark on the World Air-Speed Record. It was March 10th, 1956 and the people of Chichester in Sussex must have wondered what on earth that was ,flashing through the sky at 38,000 feet.
hendon1965 4 years ago
lest we forget this british ingenuity in flight
quasarhi 4 years ago
Superb
denberg2 4 years ago 2