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26th Jun 2018, 05:34

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After the retirement of Neville Duke, Hawker then appointed Merewether as its chief experimental test pilot. On the 2 October 1958, he flew a Hunter Mk.6 non-stop to El Adem, Libya (a distance of 1,588 nautical miles) in three hours and 19 minutes (at an average of 548 miles-per-hour). The aircraft carried the new 230-gallon (1,046-litre) fuel tanks on the inboard wing pylons with a pair of 100-gallon tanks mounted on the outer.

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