[1] Dundas had served in the RFC in WW1, retiring as acting Major in 1919[2] and had then worked at the family firm of Heenan & Froude, leaving in 1935 when the parent company went bankrupt.

[3] He served on the British Air Commission to North America in World War II, and communicated many of Frank Whittle's reports to the USAAF, which eventually led to the Bell P-59 Airacomet, the first US jet aircraft.

[1] The Satellite was a futuristic looking four-seater aircraft built of Elektron,[3] a 90% magnesium alloy, in a true monocoque 'teardrop' shaped fuselage with no internal reinforced structure.

[6][7] The Satellite was powered by a 250 hp de Havilland Gipsy Queen 31 mounted amidships driving a two-blade Aeromatic "pusher" airscrew in the tail,[8] with cooling air drawn by a fan through a flush slot on the roof of the fuselage.

[3] The Chief Test Pilot at RAE Farnborough, Group Captain H. J. Wilson (holder of the World speed Record in the Gloster Meteor), after several long runs down the runway, managed to get the Satellite airborne at Blackbushe Airport.