FV - from my Boy's Book of Whizzy Whooshy things:
DH Hornet - Single-seat long-range fighter (or fighter-bomber, but we'll ignore such desecration!). Wooden fuselage and composite plywood and light alloy wing. Max range 3000 miles!
Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 - first flew 16 Jul 47 with Geoffrey Tyson at the helm; 2 months later demo'd at Farnborough (inverted!). 3 were built, 1 crashed in a flight from Felixstowe and a second was lost when it hit driftwood landing off Cowes. The only survivor stopped flying in 1951 but is now safely preserved at Duxford. Oh - and max range was all of 482 miles....
I still want a Hornet for Christmas!!