Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 26/09/1953 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr H.D. Shaw; Mr J. McCaig, Ferranti Flying Unit TPs |
| Aircraft | Hawker Sea Fury T Mk 20 VX283 |
| Took off from | Turnhouse, Edinburgh (Midlothian) |
| Purpose of flight | Gyro gun sight trials |
| Incident location | Tranent, East Lothian |
| Incident details | Trial abandoned owing to cloud over firing ranges. Later seen performing barrel roll at 1,000ft but nose dropped and aircraft dived into ground |