Record Breaker -- Pictured as it started a run over a measure 18-kilometer course over the California desert Aug. 20, 1955, a North American F-100C Super Sabre jet plane piloted by Air Force Col. Horace A. Hanes levels off for the flight which set a new world's mark of 822.135 m.p.h. Photos, made during the record breaking flight were released today at the same time the new mark was announced during the National Aircraft Show at Philadelphia where Colonel Hanes was scheduled to make a taken flig
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