JS(CC)59b RAF cover commemorating British Achievements in Speed. The cover artwork by Tony Theobald shows Neville Duke's Red Hawker Hunter which broke the World Air Speed Record in 1953, Peter Twiss in the Fairey Delta 2 which shattered the World Air Speed Record in 1956 with a blistering 1,100mph+, Sir Henry Segrave's Golden Arrow is shown a lovely car which set the Land Speed record at 231.44mph in 1929. No cover would be complete without commemorating the famous Bluebirds and Sir Malcom Campbell is shown in his Bluebird car which in 1935 set the World Land Speed Record at 301.13mph finally Donald Campbell is shown in his Bluebird K7 boat which set the World Speed Record on Water at 276.33mph in 1964.

The cover has been flown in a Hawker Hunter from the DERA Establisment at RAF Boscombe Down. The cover bears US 32c Chuck Yeager X1 stamp cancelled in Washington DC and signed by Flight Lieutenant Paul Baker who flew the covers.

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