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Fairey Delta 2 British Supersonic Aircraft
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- The Fairey Delta 2 or 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.
Key features of the type include the adoption of a delta wing and a droop-nose. On 6 October 1954, the Delta 2 conducted its maiden flight, flown by Fairey test pilot Peter Twiss; a total of two aircraft would be produced. The Delta 2 was the final aircraft to be produced by Fairey as an independent manufacturer.
On the 10 March 1956 a Fairey Delta 2 ( WG777), captured the World's Absolute Speed Record at 1,132 mph between Ford and Chichester in Sussex. Piloted by Lt Cdr P Twiss, this was the first aircraft to exceed 1,000 mph in level flight. The Delta 2 held the absolute World Air Speed Record for over a year.
Aircraft Type: Fairey Delta II
Circa: 1956
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I am now 92 years old ex Faireys hydraulics DO .Drew bits of FD2.Namely,aileron control units, droop snoop jack,nose oleo, bits of main u/c. have built and flown a small R/C model (video sent to P Twiss many years back) .One model is in East Berks museum at Woodley Berks. Other one behind drawing board in my workshop.
I miss my drawing board. Blank sheet of paper in front of you. And imagination.
I must say, British have a knack for designing beauties.This machine has a tremendous one too
In fairness, we also designed some incredibly ugly aircraft too. Just look at earlier models designed by Blackburn. Saying that, that particular manufacturer atoned for past mis-steps when they designed the Buccaneer. A classic of its kind.
That’s the best thing I’ve seen all week. Reminds me of my childhood when Britain was still great and we still had national pride.
Pure magic. God bless our little country. We need engineers back in charge of engineering. One project manager will suffice per project instead of 100. Those were the days when we stood on our own feet and others looked on in awe. That’s my personnel opinion as an X aeronautical apprentice from the oldest aircraft manufacturer in the world.
@@sandervanderkammen9230 Good point! I guess they are now off shore enjoying the States or Asia!
Apparently, we have just a service-based economy, and without the European countries we were the sick man of europe
A rare footage of the great achievement of the FD2 record breaking feat. It brings back memories of the 50's where analog rules - just look at the equipment and measurig techniques. " Your vector is good". Cool! The day Peter Twiss shattered the 1000 mph mark! Sonic booms could be heard as the FD2 streaked across the sky with vapour trails. Yes, the FD2 was a British engineering marvel and it should have been developed into a British "Mirage" if the FD3 all-weather interceptor concept was realised. Anyway, the droop nose feature was adopted by the Concorde some 10 years later. Thanks for the video.
Aah, this is making me nostalgic. The FD2 was the design base for the Concorde, particularly the wing configuration and the `droop snoot'. Both Peter Twiss and Grp Capt Slade flew for the record. The latter was the CEO of Fairey Hydraulics when I apprenticed there. We were the last lot and it's all gone now. The Company, Factory and most of the Industry as well.
And Dassault were watching and hmmm-ing... voila Mirage :-)
My father was with Fairey's for 46 years. From apprentice building Halifax bombers during the war through Fireflies and Barracudas at Ringway, then the drawing office and stress office in Heaton Chapel, Stockport. He was with them through the end of the aircraft company and into the nuclear industry. He often talked of the FD2 being the finest aircraft they ever made. As an aside, Peter Twiss retired from test flying to become Fairey Marine's demonstrator skipper, taking Huntsmen and Swordfish powerboats all over the world.
With the TSR2, well burned and buried thanks to the high quality Royal Politicians that control the UK over people´s wishes...
My Grandfather Matt Lipscombe was Foreman the body works (experimental aircraft) until he died in 1962. He worked on both the FD2 and Rotodyne.
@@keithhoughton4308 I met Peter Twiss up here in Wales when he bought a newly bought Huntsman up for a customer. As I was just 11 at the time, I was more interested in the boat than the man. He gave me a Fairey tiepin - long lost of course.
I watch and read quite a lot about aircraft, and can't believe I've never heard of this bird before. Not like it's a run-of-the-mill 2 engine cargo hauler, it was cutting edge & beautiful.
What glorious footage...thanks for posting...Peter Twiss what a pilot...
Beautiful aircraft and a mini concorde with the dropping snout
That is where the Concorde designers got the idea.
@@johnkelinske1449 wow that's awesome 😀
It was tested out on t FD2
Makes it look like a buzzard.
I was with Fairey Hydraulics Heston 1972 as an apprentice and stayed with them for nearly 30 years. I helped moved the tool stores to the new site near Bristol and found loads of old jigs and fixtures for old aircraft builds.
My mate in Peacehaven loved the footage. Said a clear coastal road like that clear of traffic was a sight for sore eyes, and as a biker it would have been a dream to ride to work.
I was a kid of 10 living near Farnborough when the FD2 started flying. An amazing time, no wonder I joined the RAF to fly. But my eyesight let me down so I spent 30 years fixing aircraft. By coincidence I now live in Newhaven from where the record run started and finished.
Nice one bill
Newhaven certainly has changed a bit since this was filmed, didn't recognise it until the bends heading in to Peacehaven.
Not from there myself but live close by and have family there. Drove that road twice a day for years and tears, not at 1100+ mph though...
We are the best when we put our minds to it
Were the best
Back when we were world leaders in aviation. What a shame it fell apart.
A good example of how far we have come in keeping documentaries interesting.
A good example of documentaries before the widespread Attention deficit disorder most people have these days.😜
I don't know what it is about Brit designs but they look, British be it Cars, ships, aircraft they always seem designed with a clever set of lines.
And all too often with a naffly implausible dialogue dubbed over the top.
This aircraft is well mannered. She is just like Concorde.
They nod her head before landing and taking off.
Beautifull document, thank you very much to allow everyone to enjoy it.
Cheers from France.
What gorgeous aircraft......the Lightning still being my favourite......rock on Britain, we still have it in us, just have to stop the dilution of talent
The Lighting was barely acceptable as a Soviet bomber killer. no endurance, only two very very unreliable missiles ( Firestreak or Red Top) a third of them were lost mainly due to fire in the rear lower engine bay. Good fun to fly but years behind the Yanks!!! Like TSR2 another white elephant that lives on as an undeservered legend.
I was nine years old when this occurred and living on an operational Bomber Command RAF station. Surrounded by everything RAF, this was big news. The figure of 1132mph lives in my memory. Aircraft speed divided by the local speed of sound gives the Mach number. Twiss says he was flying at 7.5 miles high where the speed of sound is 660mph; divide this into the aircraft speed of 1132mph and you get Mach 1.7. Very impressive! In spite of the duffel coats and ladders too short to allow the pilot to step into the cockpit, we were good then.
This is priceless... thanks !
I never knew about this before. What a fantastic beautiful aircraft!!
Superb engineering.
I visit (or did pre Covid) an old boy (now 97) that worked for Fairey Aviation in Stockport during the war. He worked mainly on the Fairey Battle. Not a great plane he always says. My father was on an aircraft carrier during the war which at the start of his time on board had Fairey Swordfish's on it. Amazing that so few years later Fairey could produce such a plane as this.
all firms in all walks of life occasionally get it wrong (lookup Avro Manchester, yet..) - tbf the Battle probably satisfied the Air Ministry specs it was aimed at...... perhaps the spec was wrong, not the aircraft. As a graduate engineer in '84 I joined EMI in Hayes west London, making radar, in the mechanical "stress section" next to the drawing office. The oldest man in the section (of 8 men) was an ex Fairey's engineer, old school stress man. Fairey had previously had a big factory in Hayes as well as using Heston airfield down the road, the head office to their later/newer plant at Stockport. Jim was a dour old Scotsman, but the nearest I've seen to a maths genius, he could do complex differential calculus etc in his head for fun. Yes we had basic computers and scientific calculators buit Jim was from the old school sliderule days, just like your old boy, when drawing offices had loads of skilled engineers number crunching etc etc. Most of the time our Jim had no work, so he'd read thro old maths text books, looking (and finding) errors, or would wander around looking for people to bore haha. Given his age he must have joined Faireys abt 1940, I remember he'd worked a lot on the Gannet, which was how he'd got to work at EMI as we were making airborne radar systems similar to what the Gannet did - the Gannet was a horrible looking aircraft but VERY efficient, a great design. Ditto the Rotodyne was way ahead of its time, Faireys really could and did design some great aircraft, also missiles (associated with the FD2). And pre WW2 Fairey had built their reputation on maritime aircraft, seaplanes etc, and as you'll know they HAVE to be really tough, rugged, reliable aircraft, hence they may look ugly but so what. Which is how the stringbag Swordfish still did great job in WW2. Re the FD2, I've always been interested in ultra high speed cars and flight, and that may well be due to the fact I liked making Airfix model kits as a kid, and one of the earliest I made was the FD2, with drooping nose, dunno why someone thought I'd like that as a small boy it had no guns lol), but it struck a chord with me.
Peter Twiss, my boyhood hero.
Bravo Twiss! Bravo Old Man, jolly good job chap!
Brilliant! Pure engineering. Just goes to show what an innovating nation we were.
Droop snoot, too. The Murex is the Mediterranean sea snail (?) that the Roman imperial purple dye was made from.
saw the record run contrails from Chichester as a boy...
I was just 13 days old when it made its maiden flight
Awesome three pointer landing at 6:08
I was certainly living in the right location at the time and remember seeing a contrail streaking across the sky. The radio announced the news that night, so I may have witnessed the flight.
Met Peter Twiss in the 80s. Jolly nice chap :)
Outstanding footage. Brilliant effort to have posted for our delight and admiration. Thank you.
Our pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!
A staggeringly beautiful and extremely advanced fighter aircraft. Meanwhile, ground control are talking to each other on wind-up telephones.
When the “Great” in Britain meant something…..our very own right stuff……imagine if our then governments had the balls to actually support, develop and fly these incredible planes…….sadly all we can do is imagine……chapeaux to all those men and women who gave so much to make all of us 70 odd years on, mighty proud.
We used to watch test flights of this along with the Vulcan at A V Roe, Woodford back in the fifties.
I used to see them fly from RAF Waddington in the 60s.
I live a mile away from the old factory. Now a housing estate (of course)
If you want to see this aircraft, it is at RAF COSFORD AIRCRAFT MUSEUM.
Yes i wish they would play videos like these next to the aircraft. Know somewhere who works there. But like most of these places, management..say no more.
@@flybobbie1449 Maybe you have to join the RAF first.
From the company that brought you the Swordfish 😮
Now we know where concorde got its nose.
Actually, I went to the Navel Air Fleet museum in Yeovilleton (UK) - the Concorde wing design is exactly the same as this jet, that is what caused the nose to be to high when landing, hence the nose was modified to drop on landing. This jet was designed in 1954, ten years before Concord.
I thought the same thing when I saw it
@@matrixpub the FD2 shown here had a straight leading edge while Concord has a graceful otive leading edge.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 they built 2. The record breaking version shown here was later modified with an ogival wing, as a prototype for the Concorde wing. So no, not the wing shown here but yes, the wing the plane has now in the museum. The later plane still has the original simple Delta wing.
a time in history never to be seen again, all this done with rudimentary or non-existent electronics.
Ah, no. The electronics were of a very high standard, albeit using thermionic valves. Good enough that they could be used in proximity fuses in flak rounds, which exploded in close proximity to German bombers during WW2. Good enough to withstand the tremendously high g-forces when being fired out of an anti-aircraft gun & still work. Electronics were of a very high standard before solid state semiconductors.
At the time Avro were halfway through building the prototype for a mach 3+ bomber, but then the defence paper of 1957 came and the project was cut. The prototype scrapped... Just imagine a British SR-71!
The Brit's build a pretty bird !
Great engineers but terrible bureaucrats.
This design was seriously considered for the RAF at one point
Rough job, repeatedly racing a high performance jet over & over again... 🤤😍
Britain once built the most advanced aircraft in the world but just ran out of money to continue. Two world wars came at a great cost to its aeronautical engineering industry.
@@sandervanderkammen9230 So you think Britain has the most advanced Aeronautical engineering Knowledge in the World today. I would have to agree. Their aircraft and engines definitely outperform anything flying today.
Ian God… no he didn’t claim what you seem to think. Try reading his post again … jeez!
The plane looks so advanced compared to the refuelling truck, phone and all the other equipment.
Great upload, what a gem. Thanks v much.
Glad you enjoyed it
Interesting to see the Condordesque nose droop.
Made my day, thanks for posting.
Our pleasure!
That aircraft was a beautiful creation.
Land of Hope and Glory!🇬🇧
when this fabulous aircraft was flying we were driving around in morris minors top speed 70mph
Wow a Mini Concord !
“Baby Concorde”
A modified version was indeed used much later for Concorde test purposes. Look up BAC 221 used until 1973.
thank you dear for uploading it
I saw this clip shortly before my 4th birthday, so...
DAD "Who do you want to invite to your party?"
ME "Peter Twiss"
MUM "Anybody else?"
ME "Only Peter Twiss".
I can't recall Plan B, but perhaps it was Beaulieu Motor Museum to see Bluebird.
Peter Twiss went on to fly a Fairey Swordfish in the film Sink the Bismarck , and also a Powerboat Skipper for Smersch in From Russia With Love..
So, that's where Concord's nose came from.
That hangnail nose appears as though it was a design precedent to the Concorde SST.
Precisely, the Concorde was the result of the use of
the Fairey FD-2,
the Short SC-1 &
the Bristol T-188
as test platforms.
I regret only that this video doesn't have more flight views of this beautiful plane.
Love Britain !
I love this plane !
It all sounds frightfully good fun.
I'm no plane geek at all but a look on Wikipedia tells me that WG774 was used for the record attempt. This footage clearly shows WG777 at 5:04.
Interesting that the nose, including cockpit, drooped down for landings. Probably where Concorde got it from
Love the ground crew in duffle coats and cloth caps. Health and Safety?
Thunderbirds are go!
also trafficviolations... and most likely without seatbelts...
@@w.callens1629 Seatbelts weren't fitted until 70s for the most
@@ianmangham4570 thats why i said it. . .
No fancy runway markings in those days, to have had them wasn't British, old chap.
Not a hi-vis jacket in sight, they just got the job done
I was at primary school but I distinctly remember our headmaster coming in to tell the class that Peter Twiss had just taken the air speed record.
Beautiful so beautifully aircraft
I'd like to see more film like the bit at the end at the White Cliffs...flying low and fast.
Best looking British aircraft ever built
Jolly good show
What do they know of England who only England know , back when Britain led the world , when we made things and did things that were cutting edge world beaters and the word snowflake meant just that flakes of snow.
@@sandervanderkammen9230 read back trough the comments or get an adult to do it for you, we were on about the nineteen fifty’s it’s now 2021most of the British aircraft manufacturers were bought out and merged multiple times to form groups such as BAE systems
So much so not for the government bean counters and company forced mergers since the white paper of the late 1950's. Things that escaped, GE's Lightning, the Kestrel/Harrier, V bomber upgrades though one stop gap design, the Valiant, had to be retired due to wing spar fatigue due to the low level flight adoption. Also coming in the 1960's was the Shackleton replacement (Comet 4/Nimrod) and the later VC10 in flight re fuelling tanker adaption together with the Victor. A later joint nation defense aircraft development was the Tornado.
Beautiful.
"Your vector is good!"
Murex - the mollusc from which the imperial purple dye is produced. They had great hopes in this project...
Reckon they could have given the poor bloke a better set of steps.
That's proper budget control, that is!
@@FlashPan73 Bloody typical more like.
Well chaps, we can buy decent steps or restock the drinks cabinet.
And gloves without his fingers poking through!
'Brylcreme' and city shoes typical p.p.e. of the day.
@MichaelKingsfordGray They named him after Gytha Ogg's cat.
You don't *get* cooler than being named after Nanny Ogg's well 'ard cat.
Concorde in the making.
Shame Britain never became successful commercially considering their capabilities back then .
@@sandervanderkammen9230 It is hard to believe now that Britain was a world power only a lifetime in the past , one success they seem to excel at is failure in everything they do except welfare and the national religion NHS .
@@sandervanderkammen9230 Have you been in lockdown too long?...you seem very negative in all your comments. Cheer up, it may never happen.
@@martinjohnson9316 Possible Wilbur Finnegan/Soaring Tractor. Absolutely loathes anything British.
Love the Concorde Fighter 🤩🤠
Thank you for visiting
Think I'm right she's flying out of Boscombe Down in this clip ? .
Where's Public Service Broadcasting when you need them.... this would make a great song alongside Spitfire Bird....
Great thank you.
You are welcome!
From an era when Britain had the skills to built things rather than become the puppet it is now
You are evidently ignorant of our current aerospace industry, though Covid 19 has given it a big knock.
Well... Britain decided to nationalise the Jet Age because it was a percieved to be a State Asset run by fragmented aerospace and airline industries which would be more efficient if rationalised.
What a terrible mistake. The government set about eliminating domestic competition, so our best engineers had to leave the country to get work at their level of competence - it was called "The Brain Drain". That handed the most advanced technology in the world to our overseas competitors. Britain gave its supremacy away in pursuit of the postwar political meme of nationalisation. Similarly, shipbuilding the motor industry and our railways.
Shame on our leaders of the time. Shame on them.
@@lindsayheyes925 That's a very partial view. The industry was populated by small and medium sized companies who were addicted to the military contract gravy train, and who refused to speak to each other about mergers or joint ventures necessary to become internationally relevant. Construction standards were generally indifferent with no two aircraft being identical. As usual we could design and innovate, but not much else. Yes the government made a bigger mess of it, but they had issued plenty of hints to the industry to sort itself out, and the industry big wigs ignored them. It's too easy to blame the state when the real problem was fiefdoms and parochialism.
@@timhancock6626 You are correct to write that the government gave the manufacturers plenty of warning.
However, we did give our jet technology - including patents - to the USA, and Sir Frank Whittle's part was barely acknowledged;
And the silo mentality that prevented aerospace competitors cooperating (in the way that car and IT manufacturers do so successfully today) was a paradigm which was required by the government, a legacy of wartime security measures.
My father worked on Blue Steel as an engineer for A V Roe, responsible for installing the forward throw calculator. His work was greatly hindered by secrecy about the space to be occupied by the warhead and its C of G, which delayed the deployment of the deterrent. There is a pretty good webpage on the tests at Woomera, where my father worked, and a careful read of that supports his assertion. His brother was at the same time an engineer for Vosper Thorneycroft, working with Blue Streak on the Isle of Wight. Such was the level of compartmentalisation that neither of them realised the similarities of their work until many decades later.
Few can deny that the experience of rail travel was truly awful under nationalisation, with filthy carriages and stations, nausea inducing track, appalling catering (except in silver-service dining cars), and frequent service cancellations. As for the motor industry, its failure was used as a case study module for post graduate Diploma in Management Studies students in the 70s and 80s, and as I was informed until the MBA was introduced.
But I am partial to uncurly sandwiches.
Just an humain brain and a Machine...Glorious times!
Much better than the Bell x1.
The Bell X1 borrowed heavily from British input from the Miles aircraft company whose design drawings were gifted to the Americans when we cancelled the Miles M52. Most notably the flying tail was an idea we gave them.en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_M.52
The Bell was rocket powered, the Fairey was jet turbine powered (R.R. Avon).
The Bell had to be air launched, the Fairey used a conventional airfield.
The Fairey was the first aircraft to exceed 1,000 M.P.H. in level flight and still holds an unbroken record of having broken the absolute world air speed by the biggest ever margin.
It (the Fairey) was designed and built when Britain ruled the air.
@@PenzancePete Correct comment.
@@timhancock6626 Sure did.
@valleywoodworker He certainly doesn't know much. Its probably another alias of that other idiot soaring tractor.
You can see where the Concorde basic design came from.
They could have given the pilot a cool set of shades.He looks like James may.love the flat cabs and brown coats of the aircrew .health and safty gear 1950s style.I drive as fast as that Wolsely in my merc amg all the time!
Found the British road trip amazing that left me with two questions: Are there any straight roads in England and can a sober driver possibly fall asleep at the wheel?
Chocks away spiffing
What a pity they didn't develop that jet car! 😁
Beautiful airplane.
It sure is! thanks for watching
@@BritishHelicoptersHistory I knew a gentleman who got to fly in the back seat of the Gloster Meteor chase plane used on the final flight of one of the FD2s. When they got back on the ground he handed the FD2 pilot a clipboard with a signoff sheet for his comments and he simply wrote "Satis" on it meaning satisfactory. Elegant ending for an elegant aircraft.
What a pity that various govenments have destroyed the British aircraft industry over the years when at one time we were world leaders.
Not the great Chaz Gisby from Autoguard by any chance?
WATCH OUT FOR THAT LITTLE OLD..... Oh, it's too late now.....
I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN FAIREY'S..... 🤗
Sounds like the sound track has been processed through a wire tap.
What a great simulator that would be for todays xbox.
No one designed more beautiful ground breaking aircraft then the Brits. 👀⚒️❤️
Its a wonder that car never crashed .
TOP interesting channel... Very Good ... Thank You !!!
Many thanks, glad you enjoy it!
@@BritishHelicoptersHistory Oh yes, i enjoy all of your stuff here - because it is very worth it !
@@BritishHelicoptersHistory Enjoying all of your stuff... and it`s really worth it !!!
@@BritishHelicoptersHistory For You, all the time Sir !!!
fairey: hey we got the worlds fastest jet. Do you think the RAF would be interested? Its as fast as a lightening but only has one engine due to better aero.
raf: no, sod off. sell the research data to the french for all we care. See how they get on with that.
So was this the basis for the French mirage?
@@JohnDoe-ox5ni no, the Mirage prototype flew 3 months before the FD2 and although in October/November 1956 the FD2 was rested in France the prototype Mirage III was almost ready to fly (first flight was on 17th November 1956).
Did we sell the blueprints too the French, which later became the Mirage series or am i ill informed?
It's difficult to say since i could not find any reliable source online talking about it. However, Fairey had good relations with Dassault and the Delta 2 even did testings in France, so, in the end, everything is possible :). For me, even if the two had a delta wing and similar looks, the Mirage III was definitely not a direct copy of the Delta 2.
"but but but! ..GB is a service based country!! "
My uncle Raymond (Kearney) designed the airframe of the Delta 2, including the droop snoot mechanism.
Would someone please make a list of all of the British Record Breakers of the clod war? Lot's of prizes in that bag.
In uk they toyed with aircrafts and then did nothing contrasted to sweden who fullfilled its toys and did a functional plane
The FD.2 was the basis for the Mirage III, a hugely successful series of aircraft.
@@GRAHAMAUS except that the prototype of the Mirage family, the MD550, flew THREE MONTHS before the FD2. As the French can't time travel then your claim is bogus. Yes, they did some low level high speed flying of the FD2 in France, but that was in October/November 1956, and the Mirage III had its first flight on 17th November 1956, meaning any data from the FD2 flights won't have had any impact on the prototype's design.
@@sandervanderkammen9230 This video says different. It was a two horse race between Gb and the USA.
Willie Meschersmit wrote a story about his post war design work. After the planes for Argentina and Egypt he got involved with the HS passenger jet.
He objected to the large number of bolts they wanted to fix on the wings.
They didn't need over 100 bolts, "I only needed four".
The rest of the committee threw him out on the grounds that they wanted to use the plane more than once.