408 mate? bloody sluggard . . . .in 1931 the S6b reset the world record
at 407 mph . we remember certain numbers that are locked in despite the passage of years. . . that is one of them . . . also first proper girl friend's phone number . . .363840. . . . when I gave it to the late Lane Morrow , a very dry yank flying at the time for Masling Airlines, he came straight back with "KINDA PEAR-SHAPED?" ( and THIS is what I'd call call a real segue , cobber.)\
Note that THE KING'S AIR FORCE cost sixpence . Remember that in the sixties we could . . . anybody could. . . ask DCA to send THE REGISTER OF CIVIL AIRCRAFT (in it''s pale blue covers with the metal bend over pins going through the binding holes. Publication services such as this one were free of charge. My old registers are ready to go to a good home now, along with mountains of other aeronautica)
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