5 EASY FACTS ABOUT WD808 DESCRIBED

Gloster GA.five F/four.forty eight (Javelin) second prototype WD808. Published off (ruined) 11 June 1953: Fatal crash just after going through a 'super-stall'. At significant angles of assault the elevators had been masked through the airflow via the wings and have become ineffective, from which point recovery was not possible. The pilot, Peter Law