On this day in 1959, The French prototype Nord Griffon II, powered by a turbo-ramjet, breaks the speed record over 100 km at 1643km/h (1021mph), or nearly 500km/h (300mph) faster than the previous record on a F4D Skyray. André Turcat, flying the Griffon for the record, would push it later to Mach2,19, limited only by the temperature of the structure at those speeds.

2009 , France , Griffon , Griffon II , le Bourget , Musée de l'Air , Nord 1500 , Nord Aviation , Paris

Exposure Time	1/200 s
ApertureFNumber	f/4.0
ISO	400
Model	Canon EOS 30D
Lens	EF85mm f/1.8 USM
Focal Length	85 mm
Date Time of Original	2009:06:14 14:42:12

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Robin MORET

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

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Sunday, February 24, 2019

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2009, France, Griffon, Griffon II, le Bourget, Musée de l'Air, Nord 1500, Nord Aviation, Paris

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