First flight of the Fairey Rotodyne
Wednesday, November 6, 1957
- White Waltham Airfield, United Kingdom 
This is a Notable Operational milestone.
Description:
The aircraft (XE521) was piloted by W. R. Gellatly and J.G.P. Morton.
The Rotodyne still holds a world speed record (in the E-2 Rotodyne sub-class).
See AHS Calendar November 2014 for more details.
.jpg "Photo from Flickr by Les Chatfield (image cropped and returned to B&W) (license) (Attribution 2.0 Generic/CC BY 2.0)")
