SECRET PLANE BLOWS UP
British “flying TRIANGLE ”
LONDON, August 26 A British “Flying Triangle” experimental secret jet aeroplane exploded in the air over the Stanstead Airport, Es-to-night. There were only scraps °f the fuselage left and the cockpit the only part still recognisable. -The pilot, a Handley Page test pilot “r D. Broomfield, was killed. The aircraft was a Handley Page 38 •nd it was considered to be one ol Britain’s most important experimental Planes. Its purpose was to discover new facts about the new type of wing. “• wing was a scale model of a planned bomber wihg designed to give nigh lift with a low drag. It was fitted ■*ith very large flaps. Cricket players who saw the aeroplane disintegrating into fragments, •aid that it passed over them about 000 to 700 miles an hour, and appeared as if to land when it broke up. „ A Handley Page spokesman saidthat the aeroplane had flown successfully many times.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26511, 28 August 1951, Page 7
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