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The 550mph Killer Britain Built in Secret That America Tried to Bury

Britain built a carrier jet so dangerous that Americans, allegedly, didn't want it to exist. The story goes like this: de Havilland Aircraft designed a twin-engine naval interceptor in the late 1940s — a machine so capable, so threatening to American air superiority, that Pentagon officials quietly pressured Whitehall to have the programme killed before it ever reached the fleet. The jet carried cutting-edge guided missiles. It flew from carrier decks at 48,000 feet and could hunt Soviet bombers at ranges that gave the Fleet Air Arm a genuine edge over anything Washington was deploying at sea. And the Americans, so the story goes, buried it.It's a compelling story. Suppressed technology. Geopolitical conspiracy. A capable British machine wiped out not by its own limitations but by the machinations of a more powerful ally. Aviation history is full of these narratives — usually about the TSR-2, occasionally about the P.1154, sometimes about half a dozen other programmes that died in the decade between Suez and the 1966 Defence White Paper. The de Havilland Sea Vixen is the latest aircraft to get this treatment.