Percival P6 Mew Gull AircraftThe Percival P6 Mew Gull Racing Aircraft as shown in photograph above! Unfortunately, the Percival P6 Mew Gull shown in this picture above is the only surviving Percival P6 Mew Gull that is in existence today from a total of six racing aircraft that were built! The Percival Mew Gull was a British racing aircraft dating back to the 1930s. It is a small, single-engine, single-seat, low wing monoplane constructed out of wood and powered by a six-cylinder de Havilland Gipsy Six piston 205hp engine which can produced speeds in excess 260mph. The original Percival Mew Gull was the first civil aircraft to accomplished air flight speeds in excess of 200 mph! During the aircraft's racing career, it has set many records and was even considered a significant, efficient design, one that eventually reached a top speed of 265 mph (425 km/h) on a modest 205hp (153 kW). Between the 5th February and 9th February 1939, air race pilot Alex Henshaw flying a special modified Percival Mew Gull aircraft, set several records for a propelled aircraft in solo flights between Gravesend, London and Wingfield Cape Town, South Africa. Many of which has never been broken, even after 70 years! At sea level the Percival P6 Mew Gull was even faster than the Hawker Hurricane Fighter! | |
