Aircraft by type - still being constructed

EJECTIONS and LOSSES

Gloster Javelin Mk.1 - Mk.9

Air Force

based

no ejection
 Sqn Ldr William Arthur Waterton AFC (Chief Test Pilot) escaped on ground, returned to burning aircraft to  rescue the  automatic records

Typical publicity of the period

Moreton Valance  / RAF Boscombe Down

Prototype and early versions of the Javelin were fitted with the Martin-Baker Mk 2 fully automatic ejection seat.

LINK

Another advert for the  Martin-Baker Mk 2 fully automatic ejection seat

[see also 1st September 1959]

[see also 1st September 1959]

87 Sqn  RAF Bruggen

gentle spiral descent, fuel starvation to both engines caused by separate mechanical failures - the starboard engine failed at 6000 feet followed by the port engine during the final stages of the final approach  11 miles south east ofBruggan

41 Sqn RAF Wattisham

Javelin at Wattisham on 11th July 1958.  I witnessed this ejection. The pilot, as I remember, was Capt Earl Taylor USAF on exchange with the RAF. At the end of his exchange he decided to wire the airfield. During a loop the aircraft entered cloud and the aircraft, which had all sorts of angle of attack limitations due to the high-set tailplane, emerged in a flat spin. I saw one seat come out of the aircraft at about 200 feet but with the high rate of descent it didn't look survivable. However the explosion of the aircraft seemed to lift the developing parachute and Brian Bedford survived unhurt. The pilot's seat had, in fact, separated but was outside the parameters. 

“Oscar “ Wild
in email 2007

 recovering from a dive, the aircraft stalled and could not be controlled, crashed 3 miles west south west of Fakenham

RAF

Performance trial, Partial engine failure in flight   safe single‑engine landing made

1st September 1959 

no ejection
Pilot Flight Lieutenant Christopher Stamp Tulloch Constable BROOKSBANK - killed

no ejection Navigator Sergeant Graham Anthony John SPRIGGS  killed

Slight mistake in the 228 OCU crash in 1959.  Captain Bob Neitz USAF was the navigator and Fg Off Cowper was the (student) pilot.
I think I was the authorising/briefing officer for this flight.  Bob was  almost at the end of his tour as NRL No.3 squadron of the OCU and I took over this post from him.
Wilf Hodgkinson
amended following email 20th March 2008

41 Sqdn

29 Sqdn

29 Sqdn

29 Sqn

I just found your website whilst searching for articles regarding a Gloster  Javelin crash in November 1960  in the Moorfoot Hills in which the two crew  were killed. I thought you might be interested in a recent post on PPRUNE  which suggests that the accident was the result of an engine malfunction and  that the crew ejected at high speed and low altitude once the a/c had been  directed away from populated areas. The post states that the crew did not  survive the ejection, presumably because the a/c was too low, too fast, or  both, at the time of ejection.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=242974

I wonder if the official accident report is publicly available and if so,  where it could be found? Perhaps that would have the correct story?

Best regards,

Colin Dawson
in email 26th January 2007.

72 Sqn  RAF Leeming

46 Sqn  RAF Waterbeach

3 Jul 61

XH839

Cat 3

IIRC, the Nav in XH 791 (the Indian crash) was Tony MELTON, not Mehon. We were called into the Embassy on, I believe, a Sunday, to cover the incident. Some time later, in Northern Burma, we met the Pakistani pilot (and his Grumman Goose) who had alighted on the river (no mean feat!!) to pick him up.
reply to PPRuNe from Cornish Jack 11th November 2006

a small extract from a manuscript I am putting together that one day will hopefully be the basis of my autobiography.
.......There were unfortunately many accidents and incidents at Akrotiri during the period I lived there but being only a schoolboy I was not involved in any apart from the odd one I witnessed. So many times I would go to school to hear that a Hunter had gone missing or my father would return from work with a similar tale. Cyprus is only about 40 miles from the Turkish coast. Earthquakes are almost common in central Turkey. We would often experience earth tremors at Akrotiri as we on the periphery of the epicentre of a quake in Turkey. The night of 26th October 1961 I was almost thrown out of bed by a rumbling and shaking of the ground. No need to worry shouted my parents from their bedroom just an earth tremor. Next day we found out that a Javelin and a Canberra  had collided. Canberra B2 WD995 of 32 Sqd. and Javelin XH906 of 25 Sqd had been undertaking practice night interceptions. They collided 2.5 miles north of Akrotiri. All three crew of the Canberra were killed, F/L Norman Youd aged 26 the pilot, F/O John Geldhart aged 24 and F/O Michael Harris aged 22. The Javelin was flown by F/L R Lloyd, he ejected safely. His navigator, F/L J Morris, 31 was not so fortunate, he sadly perished.

from Clint.
in email 10th November 2006