"Flying Triangle” Aircraft Crashes.
The Air Ministry announced to-night that the Avro 707 jet aircraft, known as the Avro Delta “Flying Triangle,” piloted by Mr Sam Esler, deputy chief test pilot for A. V. Roe and Company, had crashed near Blackbushe airport, Surrey, and that the pilot had been killed. The aeroplane flew for the first time on September 4. No details of its speed or performance have been divulged.—London, September 30k
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25924, 3 October 1949, Page 3
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