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Old 2nd Dec 2003, 06:45
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Golf Charlie Charlie
 
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I think the Fairy Delta was built in the mid-1950s. Didn't Peter Twiss get its epochal 1,132 mph speed record around 1956, smashing the previous record by 300 or so mph ? The same aircraft was then modified into the BAC 221, which was the aircraft used in Concorde research. I think, anyway.
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