Wartime experiments led to Windermere witnessing one of the Wakefield family’s innovations
Wednesday 3 February 1943: at Lake Windermere, that morning a stiff breeze gathered. Abruptly the peace was shattered by the loud rumble of a powerful engine. Watching from the shore, a small crowd of men and women waited patiently. On the lake, final preparations were made for the first ascent by a form of flying machine very rarely seen.