Talk:Fairey S.9/30

Test pilot had to jump twice
Don't know if anyone cares--and no, I don't have a citation--but Fairey Chief Test Pilot Chris Staniland was flying the sole TSR1 when it was lost, as the article says, as the result of a flat spin. The interesting thing was that Staniland bailed out of the front (pilot's) cockpit, and because of the way the airplane was flat-spinning, he ended up in the rear (gunner's) cockpit and had to jump again. Possibly a first...and last.173.62.108.108 (talk) 20:30, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * That is true, confirmed by H A Taylor in his Putnam volume "Fairey Aircraft since 1915", p.236.TSRL (talk) 09:11, 24 February 2013 (UTC)