In message , Mitchell
Holman writes


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More popularly known as the Flying Bedstead.

Two R-R Nenes for lift and puffer jets for directional control.

This picture shows the second rig, XK426, which flew on 12 November 1956
but crashed on 27 November 1957 on a tethered flight after hitting the
gantry and killing the pilot, Wg Cdr H G F Larson.

The surviving rig, XJ314, flew on 9 July 1953 tethered and on 3 August
1954 free. It completed 224 tethered and 16 free flights by December
1954. It is now in the Science Museum in London.

(information from Vic Flintham's website, http://www.vicflintham.co.uk/)
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Peter

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