NEW JET FIGHTER
Reeeived Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, August 3. Tlie-latest deseendant of the Spitfire is the Viekers Supermarine single-seat ' jet fighter, says the Evenlng Standard. j The new plane, at present test flying, \ is a jet version of the Viekers Spitfire, I suceessor to the Spitfire. Its speed, with a Rolls-Royee Griffon piston) engine, is 460 miles an hour. I
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1946, Page 5
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