Aug. 08, 1954 - BRITAIN PRODUCT THE FAST FIGHTE AIRCRAFT ITS TOP SPEED MAY BE...

Aug. 08, 1954 - BRITAIN PRODUCES THE FAST FIGHTE AIRCRAFT ITS TOP SPEED MAY BE 1.000 M.P.H. Britain bev produced what experts believe is the fast., fighter aircraft to tie world. The aircraft, known as the P.1, is a sleek, delta-winged single seater, powered by two Armetrong-Siddeley Sapphire turbojet engines buried in the fuselage. The new fighter is capable of at].vast 800m, p, h. in level flight, but its performance I. being kept strictly secret. It may well be able to react: i_000. , p, h. it is toe first Brittsh aircraft capable oi flying faster than sound in level flight. All the other” ionic Bang” iircraft have broken the sound barrier a dive. Wing Commander 001081 P. BEAUMONT, 35. chief*.sat pilot of the English Electric Compan, flew the rna, h.ine for the first time yesterday. PHOTO SHOWS: The three men who have been chiefly raponsible for the design, conatrumtion and testing of the English Electric P.O, the first British aircraft to be capable of supersonic speed in level flight. They are (from left to right) MR. W. SHORROCK, MOLE., the manager of the Preston work. of the English Electric Company; WING COMMANDER R.P. BEAUMONT, D.S.O. end bar, 0.B.E., D.F.C. and bar, the Company's chief Test pilot, and the chief engineer of the company, who leade the team which designed the P.1.. On the desk is a model of the aircraft