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GROUP CAPTAIN H. J. WILSON, R.A.F., piloting a Gloster Meteor aircraft powered with two Rolls Derwent gas turbine engines, regained the speed record for Great Britain on November 7, flying over a course in the Thames estuary off Herne Bay. The officially recognized speed, being the average of four flights over the course in opposite directions, was 606·2 miles an hour. Mr. Eric Greenwood, the chief test pilot of the Gloster Aircraft Co., also flew a similar course, on another machine of the same type, averaging 603 miles per hour. The previous speed record was held for Germany by Fritz Wendel. This was set up on April 27, 1939, when he flew a Messerschmidt Bs.lO9R monoplane at 469·2 miles per hour.
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Air Speed Record by Jet Propelled Aircraft. Nature 156, 597 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156597b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156597b0