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WG774 British Aircraft Corporation BAC.221 / Fairey Delta 2 preserved at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton 12/9/25.
This was used as a high speed test aircraft for the development of Concorde.
School assignment: A one-minute statue, like one of Erwin Wurm
Title: "Oude liefde.. (roest niet)"
(Dutch saying: Old/past love never fades (?))
A visit on Easter Sunday 2023 to the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford.
There is four hangers with RAF planes from WW1 and WW2, the Cold War and other conflicts.
The Royal Air Force Museum Cosford is in Cosford, Shropshire. There is also a London museum near Hendon. The Cosford site was opened at RAF Cosford in 1979.
Hanger 2: RAF Stories and Test Flight
WG777
In the late 1940s Britain was trailing far behind in supersonic aircraft design. To try to retrieve matters the Ministry of Supply issued a specification for a supersonic research aircraft, and Fairey set about meeting this with a delta-winged aircraft designed for investigation into flight and control at transonic and supersonic speeds.
The final design was a single-seat, delta-winged aircraft powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon engine with an afterburner. The aircraft was named the Fairey Delta 2, or FD2. To improve the pilot’s forward view during landing, taxiing and take-off, the cockpit and nose section could be hinged downwards by ten degrees. A similar feature was used on Concorde.
Fairey test-pilot Peter Twiss flew the first FD2, WG774, on its maiden flight on 6 October 1954. On the 10 March 1956 an attempt was made on the World Air Speed Record, which Twiss broke by more than 483kph (300mph). The new record was 1820kph (1132mph) – quite an achievement considering the old record had only been set the previous year by an American F100 Super Sabre.
This aircraft is the second of only two FD2s built.