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Gwen Duke, wife of aviator Neville Duke leans out of a window at her home near Dunsford airfield. She is looking up at her husbands Hawker Hunter jet plane on the day he broke a speed record by flying a 100 km circuit at an average speed of 709.2mph, 19th September 1953. (Photo by Norman Potter/Central Press/Getty Images)

Gwen Duke, wife of aviator Neville Duke leans out of a  window at her home near Dunsford airfield. She is looking up at her husbands Hawker Hunter jet plane on the day he broke a speed record by flying a 100 km circuit at an average speed of 709.2mph, 19th September 1953. (Photo by Norman Potter/Central Press/Getty Images)