These models are part of a large series built for wind tunnel tests to establish the best wing and body shape for the supersonic airliner project which ultimately became Concorde. The development work was carried out at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough during the 1950s. Numerous shapes were tried in exhaustive tests and it became clear that a narrow delta wing would have sufficiently low drag for high-speed cruise and still have good handling characteristics at low speed and for landing.

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