Jet Plane Caused Mystery Bangs
LONDON, July 6. Mystery bangs that shook London early on Tuesday morning were caused by a twin-jet Gloster Javelin breaking the sound barrier.
A statement by the Hawker-Siddeley Group tonight said that the Javelin. Britain’s latest all-weather fighter, was on .a routine test flight from the Gloster airfield at Moreton Valence. It was flown by Gloster’s chief test pilot. Dickie Martin.
Cruising at high altitude and near the speed of sound, his oxygen tube became entangled in the parachute harness, and in freeing it he inadvertently went through the sound barrier, thereby causing the bangs.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27705, 8 July 1955, Page 11
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