Ten Miles Up On Routine Flight
LONDON, Feb. 4. , j The de Havilland Aireraft Company I has revealed that its chief test pilot,, | John Cunningham, took a jet-propelled ! ATampire hghter on a routine flight to ! an altitude of 56,900 feet in 25 minutes 1 — more than lu miles and within 17 f - cfc | of ihe -world's record. Jtaly esiablish- I ed the present record of .56,017 feet in * 1038 in a specially designed piane.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 February 1948, Page 7
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