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541:, MP for Brentford and Chiswick, questioning the Minister of Supply on 30 April 1951 about the types of ejector seat fitted to British aircraft, how they were tested and the insurance of British test pilots. While at the time the RAF used Martin Baker ejection seats, the Hawker P.1081 was fitted with an ML seat.
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for high speed research. On 3 April 1951 Wade was testing it when the aircraft entered an unrecoverable flight regime. It has been suggested that he was attempting a transonic dive and had inadvertently gone supersonic. Wade elected to eject, jettisoning the canopy at 9,000 feet (2,700 m) and
417:(P.1040). When Humble became a sales manager in June 1948, Wade became Chief Test Pilot and focussed on the development flying of the latest Hawker jets. In August 1948 Wade made the first public demonstration of the P.1040, flying it from
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1284:"The Airmen's Stories - P/O T S Wade"
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1231:Griffin, David, J. (2006).
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1182:"Inquest on S/L T./S. Wade"
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1197:. London: Grub Street.
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1158:"Off to the states"
1098:"1052 and all that"
1086:"A HAWKER OCCASION"
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1074:"THE LYMPNE RACES"
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