Flight Lieutenant Philip E. Gerry Sayer was Chief Test Pilot for Gloster Aircraft as well as a serving RAF officer. Gerry Sayer flew Britain's maiden jet flight in Sir Frank Whittle's Gloster E.28/39 (Pioneer), an aircraft designed by George Carter, on May 15, 1941.

Sayer joined the Royal Air Force in 1924 but resigned his commission in 1930 to be a test pilot with Hawker Aircraft. In 1934 Hawker took over the Gloster Aircraft Company and Sayer was appointed Chief Test Pilot.^[1]

On 21 October 1942 Sayer departed from RAF Acklington in a Hawker Typhoon to carry out tests of a gunsight involving gun firing into Druridge Bay Ranges, he never returned.^[2]

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• Flt Lt PEG Sayer
• Flt Lt PEG 'Gerry' Sayer
• Test Flying Memorial

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