Britons were flocking last week, as eager as race fans, to the R.A.F. experimental station at Farnborough, 33 miles southwest of London. The twelfth annual show of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, billed as "the most spectacular aviation display ever held in Britain," turned out to be just that. Britain's aircraft constructors, slipping aside the wraps of military security, really had something to display.
One big attraction was the cigar-shaped, swept-wing Hawker P-1067 interceptor-fighter, powered by a Rolls-Royce turbojet and touted as the "fastest fighter in the world." To show what the P-1067...
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