MAKE A MEME View Large Image ...Havilland Swallow VW120 NAN7-49.jpg The third prototype of the De Havilland DH 108 Swallow serial VW120 VW120 first flew on 24 July 1947 flown by John Cunningham a wartime nightfighter ace The following year on 12 April 1948 it established ...
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Keywords: DeHavilland Swallow VW120 NAN7-49.jpg The third prototype of the De Havilland DH 108 Swallow serial VW120 VW120 first flew on 24 July 1947 flown by John Cunningham a wartime nightfighter ace The following year on 12 April 1948 it established a new World Air Speed Record of 974 02 km/h 604 98 mph on a 100 km 62 mi circuit Then on 9 September 1948 it exceeded the speed of sound in a shallow dive from 12 195 m 40 000 ft to 9 145 m 30 000 ft In 1949 VW120 scored a third place in the Society of British Aircraft Constructors Challenge Trophy Air Race before being turned over to the UK Ministry of Supply and test flown at Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough VW 120 was destroyed on 15 February 1950 in a fatal crash near Brickhill Buckinghamshire killing its test pilot Squadron Leader Stuart Muller-Rowland Accident investigation pointed to a faulty oxygen system that incapacitated the pilot U S Navy Naval Aviation News July 1949 http //www history navy mil/nan/backissues/1940s/1949/Jul49 pdf 1949 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy De Havilland DH 108
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