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Vickers Supermarine 535 Fighter Bows In
Famborough—The shiny new Vickers Supermarine 535 displayed here publicly for the first time shortly after its first flight Aug. 23, points up the intensive development needed to produce a modern jet fighter. Starting out with the Attacker, developed toward the end of World War II, then going on to the sweptwing 510, Supermarine engineers have now taken the best of the latter and built a fullfledged fighter claimed to incorporate a greater amount of sweepback than any contemporary British fighter.