The first prototype fitted with afterburning Avon RA.7R with 9,600 lbf engine, pointed nose, airbrakes on the sides of the fuselage, and a revised windscreen. Used to set raise the world's absolute air speed record to 727.6 mph (1,171 km/h) off the English south coast, next to Littlehampton, on 7 September 1953. Now in the Museum at Tangmere, Sussex, not to far from my house in Bognor Regis.
I have had a rare ocassion to see this famous aircraft partially dismounted:
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