Fairey DELTA 2
Lt Cdr Peter Twiss OBE DSC* RN
Signed by Peter Twiss
Charles E Brown photograph of the Fairey Delta 2 signed by
Peter Twiss
1982
Fine condition photo. Measures 22 x 16 cm. stamp to the reverse.
The record breaking Fairey Delta 2 signed by the man who flew through 1000 mph for the first time in history.
Peter Twiss first achieved national prominence in March 1956 when, as a test pilot, he gained the World Air Speed Record in the Fairey Delta 2, flying at a speed of 1132 mph over Chichester in Sussex. Seventeen years earlier, in 1939, he had joined the Fleet Air Arm to serve his country in war, seeing action in Fulmars over the convoys to Malta in June 1942, in Seafires during the Operation Torch landings in NW Africa, and as a night fighter flying Mosquitoes.