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Gloster GA.5 F/4.48 (Javelin) 2nd prototype WD808. Written off (destroyed) 11 June 1953: Fatal crash right after suffering from a 'Tremendous-stall'. At large angles of attack the elevators ended up masked within the airflow by the wings and have become ineffective, from which issue Restoration was extremely hard. The pilot, Peter Lawrence, delayed