Gloster E.1/44
My father had an interesting moment whilst flying a Gloster E.1/44 (TX145). At the time he was a Flight Lieutenant with the Aerodynamics Flight at RAE Farnborough. On the 2nd November 1950 he was at 26,000ft, above solid cloud cover, when the engine flamed-out. During the descent he was guided by Farnborough Radar while he tried, unsuccessfully, to relight the engine. A major concern was that the electrically operated flight instruments might fail if too much battery power was used up. He broke cloud at about 3,000ft to be told by radar that Gatwick (then a grass field with a steel mesh runway) was straight ahead. From this position he was able to make a wheels-down glide landing, only sustaining a burst tyre towards the end of the landing roll.