Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Date | 01/08/1940 |
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Casualties | Plt Off A. Bailey, TP; AC2 Budd, Photographer |
Aircraft | Vickers Vildebeest K6408 |
Took off from | Gosport, Hampshire |
Purpose of flight | Torpedo dropping trials |
Incident location | Solent off Ryde Pier, IoW |
Incident details | Failure to recover from stall turn after torpedo drop |