As a result of the crash, and persistent stall problems on all tailless aircraft of the period, the research trials were terminated, the two other GAL.56s were transferred to the AFEE (Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment) at RAF Beaulieu, and the GAL.61 remained unflown.
On 15 February 1942, the unit was again reorganised, to form the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment (AFEE), still based at Ringway.
Hengist Mark I (DG676), on tow while with the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment based at Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, 25 April 1943
United States Army Air Forces | 101st Airborne Division | Israel Defense Forces | Canadian Forces | British Armed Forces | United States Armed Forces | 82nd Airborne Division | experimental music | American Forces Network | Royal Aircraft Establishment | Experimental music | American Expeditionary Forces | United States Air Forces in Europe | Canadian Forces Decoration | Singapore Armed Forces | Soviet Air Forces | La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club | Indian Armed Forces | Free French Forces | Armed Forces | United States armed forces | Establishment Clause | Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda | Continental Air Forces | Bar (establishment) | United States Forces Korea | Russian Airborne Troops | Polish Armed Forces | Pakistan Armed Forces | Swedish Armed Forces |
A one-third scale prototype was built entirely of wood in 1943 by Slingsby Sailplanes at Kirkbymoorside, and the Baynes Bat made its first flight in July 1943 at the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment at RAF Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorkshire.