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With Britain lagging well behind in the design of a Supersonic Aircraft, the Ministry of Supply issued a specification for delta-winged aircraft designed for investigation into flight and control at transonic and supersonic speeds.

Fairey set about rising to the challenge, the final design being a delta-winged aircraft powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon engine with an afterburner. The aircraft was named the Fairey Delta 2, or FD2, its cockpit was designed to tilt downwards by ten degrees, in a simular way to the forthcoming Concorde, to improve the pilots vision when landing, taxiing and in take off. 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.

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Shot 02.06.2017 Cosford Air Museum, Cosford, Shropshire REF 127-266

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FN2 Honda Civic Type R by Christopher Mercer

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Tony popped around to show me his new Honda Civic. I took the opportunity to get the camera out =)

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Fairey FD2 (WG777) supersonic research

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Date 1954

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The Fairey Delta 2 or FD2 (internal designation Type V within Fairey) was a British supersonic research aircraft produced by the Fairey Aviation Company in response to a specification from the Ministry of Supply for a specialised aircraft for conducting investigations into flight and control at transonic and supersonic speeds. Features included a delta wing and a droop-nose.

The final design was a single seater Delta wing aircraft powered by a Rolls Royce Avon engine with an after burner. To improve the pilots forward view during landind, taxiing and take off the cockpit nose section could be hinged downwards by ten degrees

Fairey test pilot Peter Twiss flew the first flight FD2 WG774 on its maiden flight on the 6th October 1954, and on the 10th March 1956 made an attempt on the World Air Record, which he broke by more than 300mph recording a speed of 1132mph to claim the record set only one year earlier by a USAF F-100 Super Sabre

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