Gerry Sayer

Flight Lieutenant Philip E. Gerry Sayer was Chief Test Pilot for Gloster Aircraft as well as a serving RAF officer. Gerry Sayer flew Britain's maiden jet flight in Sir Frank Whittle's Gloster E.28/39 (Pioneer), an aircraft designed by George Carter, on May 15 1941.

Sayer joined the Royal Air Force in 1924 but resigned his commission in 1930 to be a test pilot with Hawker Aircraft. In 1934 Hawker took over the Gloster Aircraft Company and Sayer was appointed Chief Test Pilot. [ [http://www.flightglobal.com Flight International 29 October 1942 "Death of Gerry Sayer"] ]

On 21 October 1942 Sayer departed from RAF Acklington in a Hawker Typhoon to carry out tests of a gunsight involving gun firing into Druridge Bay Ranges, he never returned. [ [http://www.davidsiddall.com/testflyingmemorial/1939-45.htm Test Flying Memorial] ]

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* [http://www.meteorflight.com/peg_sayer.htm Flt Lt PEG Sayer]
* [http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/e282.html Flt Lt PEG 'Gerry' Sayer]
* [http://www.davidsiddall.com/testflyingmemorial/1939-45.htm Test Flying Memorial]