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SPEEDING DARTS

 

 

SPEEDING DARTS

 

Take a trip to those heady days of the fifties and what a time it was,

now today we remember and dream of such speeding darts in the sky.

With names like Vixen, Hunter, Venom, Swift and Swallow.

Now sitting in museums, silent mementos to the shattering noise of the

sound barrier.

Men lived and died high over England breaking new ground li...

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