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dated December 6, 1953: Smallest Jet Plane

Britain's smallest jet aircraft, a revolutionary tail-less plane, christened "Sherpa", made its first public flight in Belfast on the 4th. The Sherpa, designed as a 200-mile an hour flying "baby", was meant to be the forerunner of experimental machines for ultra-high speed flight at altitudes several miles above the earth. The Sherpa had a swept-back back shoulder wing, and was powered by two small turbo-jet engines mounted side-by-side in the centre of the upper part of the fuselage just behind the cockpit.

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