After taking off from St Eval Aerodrome, Cornwall, today, Mr G.B. Lockee Bayne, Britain scientist, flying at 37,000 feet off the Cornish coast in a mosquito piloted by Squadron leader D.A.C. Hunt, pressed a button which sent a rocket hurtling into space at a speed around 900 mph. This was Britain's first supersonic rocket, designed to record aerodynamic data at speeds greater than sound, and after a flight of only two minutes is presumed to have dived into the Atlantic, but although the career of the robot was brief, it was recorded throughout by radar, radio signals received from the pilotless rocket as it held to its own destruction, and automatic cameras. Picture shows: the twin engined mosquito aircraft, pictured, just after taking off from St Eval Aerodrome. The supersonic rocket can be seen fitted underneath the fuselage of the aircraft. 9 October 1947