LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT WD808.

Gloster GA.5 File/four.forty eight (Javelin) second prototype WD808. Published off (destroyed) 11 June 1953: Deadly crash just after going through a 'super-stall'. At significant angles of assault the elevators were being masked with the airflow by the wings and became ineffective, from which stage recovery was unattainable. The pilot, Peter Lawren