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The Supermarine Swift was a British single-seat jet fighter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), built by Supermarine during the 1950s. After a protracted development period, the Swift entered service as an interceptor, but, due to a spate of accidents, its service life was short. A photo reconnaissance variant resolved some of the Swift's teething problems.
The Swift evolved from a number of prototypes, the first being the Type 510, a prototype jet fighter. It was based on the Supermarine Attacker, a straight-wing Fleet Air Arm jet with a tailwheel undercarriage, modified with the addition of swept wings. The 510 first flew in 1948, a year after the first navalised prototype Attacker had flown. The Type 510 became the first British aircraft to have both swept wings and a swept tailplane. The Type 510 also had the distinction of becoming the first swept-wing aircraft to take off and land from an aircraft carrier, during trials for the Royal Navy's (RN) Fleet Air Arm (FAA). However, RN interest soon waned despite Supermarine's modifications to the aircraft to improve aspects of its performance.
The second aircraft in the ancestral lineage that led to the Swift was the Type 528, which first flew in March 1950. Soon after its first flight, many modifications were made to its structure and it was then designated the Type 535, making its first flight under this name in August 1950. The final variant was the Type 541, a pre-production model of the Swift for which the Air Ministry had placed an order of over one hundred as a fallback in case the Hawker Hunter programme failed. The Swift was also seen by the Ministry as a replacement for the Gloster Meteor in the role of air defence.
The Type 541 replaced its predecessors' Rolls-Royce Nene centrifugal flow turbojet engine with the axial-flow Rolls-Royce AJ.65 turbojet engine, which became the famed Avon series. The fuselage, which had been given a cross section suitable for the Nene engine, was not redesigned for the narrower AJ.65 and Avon engines, and retained a somewhat portly look. Two Type 541s were produced, the first prototype making its maiden flight in 1951 and the second the following year.
The aircraft is WK281 (FR.5) on display at the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Tangmere, England which is a museum located on the former site of RAF Tangmere, West Sussex. The museum was opened in June 1982. Many aerospace exhibits covering the First World War to the Cold War are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines.
The museum aircraft are housed in two hangars with a small number on display externally. Several exhibits are on loan from the Royal Air Force Museum including the Hawker Hunter used by Neville Duke to break the airspeed record in 1953.
Taylor Swift
The 1989 World Tour
Bridgestone Arena
Nashville, TN
September 26, 2015
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Fylde Transport Trust's Blackpool Swift 570 unloads at Kirkby Stephen West.
Kirkby Stephen Rally 1 April 2018
Paratroopers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division and six NATO nations established and expanded a lodgment after conducting an airborne joint forcible entry exercise on Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 27. 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations - Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States - will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, and Romania, Aug. 17 - Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. To learn more about Swift Response, visit the U.S. Army Europe homepage at www.eur.army.mil. (U.S Army photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez/Released)
International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS 2019 at Zhukovsky International Airport (ZIA/UUBW) on September 1, 2019. Russian Aerospace Forces Swifts Aerobatic Team Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29S (izdeliye 9.13S) Fulcrum-C RF-91933/"31 Blue". This team is named "Strizhi" in Russia.
Taylor Swift.
Speak Now Tour.
Newark, NJ.
July 20, 2011.
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Taylor Swift
The 1989 World Tour
Bridgestone Arena
Nashville, TN
September 26, 2015
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Taylor Swift @ John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA, on Saturday, September 14, 2013.
Red Tour Setlist:
State of Grace
Holy Ground
Red
You Belong with Me
The Lucky One
Mean
22
Last Kiss
Everything Has Changed (with Ed Sheeran)
Begin Again
Sparks Fly
I Knew You Were Trouble
All Too Well
Love Story
Treacherous
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Taylor Swift
The 1989 World Tour
Bridgestone Arena
Nashville, TN
September 26, 2015
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Following many years in Malta former London Transport AEC Swift SMS274 is now back in the UK and is seen at Brooklands.
Two Polish soldiers take a break to pose for photos during pre-jump training in Baumholder, Germany for exercise Swift Response, Aug 23, 2015. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations – including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States – will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Romania, Aug. 17-Sept. 13, 2015. Swift Response 15 is designed to integrate multiple Allied nations’ crisis response forces into a cohesive team and demonstrate the combined ability to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a strong and secure Europe. To learn more about Swift Response, visit the U.S. Army Europe homepage at www.eur.army.mil. (U.S. Army Photo)
British soldiers of the 3rd Parachute Regiment and French soldiers of 3rd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment conduct a coalition operations briefing during Swift Response 16 training exercise at the Hohenfels Training Area, a part of the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, in Hohenfels, Germany, Jun. 22, 2016. Exercise Swift Response is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multi-national airborne forces in the world. The exercise is designed to enhance the readiness of the combat core of the U.S. Global Response Force â currently the 82nd Airborne Divisionâs 1st Brigade Combat Team â to conduct rapid-response, joint-forcible entry and follow-on operations alongside Allied high-readiness forces in Europe. Swift Response 16 includes more than 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United States and takes place in Poland and Germany, May 27-June 26, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gage Hull/Released)