THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO WD808

Gloster GA.5 File/4.48 (Javelin) next prototype WD808. Composed off (destroyed) eleven June 1953: Fatal crash just after going through a 'super-stall'. At superior angles of assault the elevators have been masked through the airflow by the wings and have become ineffective, from which issue recovery was impossible. The pilot, Peter Lawrence, delaye