Engine test stand (remains)

It is not known if this stand was ever used: there are others which are documented to have been used so this one may have been left incomplete at the end of the programme.

However its position, high on a remote cliff, was almost ideal: the exhaust gases and other products would have been directed out over the open ocean rather than towards any populated area. The steel superstructure is entirely missing, but I speculate that matters could have been arranged so that in the event of a serious incident the remains of the engine and mountings could have been jettisoned into the sea. It is possible, of course, that this is what happened on this stand, and is the reason for the missing superstructure. There are no records of such test failures, but as previously mentioned records are sparse at best.

No significant activity today, although I caught a few glimpses and awoke with a start several times last night, fancying that I heard ... what?

Yesterday evening I found what I believe to be the remains of the thing I shot the previous night. The phosphorous had burned too much of it away for easy identification, but it seems to have been at least approximately human, if rather curiously proportioned. Disturbingly, identification was made harder as the less burned remains have been largely eaten, by what I dare not think.