WORLD SPEED RECORD
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Britain To Make Attempt METEOR JET AIRCRAFT
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Received Friday, 1JL30 a.m. LONDON, July 11. It is announced that Britain will attempt to raise her own world's speed record of 606' miles an hour 1 using a Gloster -Meteor jet aircraft, for which a course has already been marked out in the j Sussex area, where several Meteors; are based. Practice flights have begun. The pilots have been formed into a high-speed flight like the Royal Air Force group which was established for the Schneider Cup preparations. The Goster Aircraft Company^s senior experimental pilot has already flown a Meteor, Mark IV, at a corrected airspeed of 630 miles an hour, according to a factory statement. I.t adds: "We are unable to run our own record attempt, as all ; our aircraft are under the control of the Ministry of Supply."
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 July 1946, Page 5
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