MAY HAVE TOUCHED 700 M.P.H.
Captain G. de Havilland's Last Flight LONDON, Dec. 14. The late Captain Geoffrey .de Havllland is now believed to have been flying at a speed "approaching 700 miles an hour" when his Swallow jet plane broke up®in the air over the Thames Estuary and caused his death in September, says the aviation correspondent cf the Daily Mail, quoting the opinion of experts who have been studying evidence. concerning the disaster. The de Havilland Aircraft Com4pany now reveals that Captain de Havilland had flown the plane at 660 miles an hour shortly hefore the crash. He planned on his last flight "to dive the aircraft at something under 10,000 feet at a speed closely approaching the speed of sound to check its controllability under these eonditions."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5279, 16 December 1946, Page 5
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130MAY HAVE TOUCHED 700 M.P.H. Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5279, 16 December 1946, Page 5
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