Thunder & Lightnings

Test Flying Memorial

"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Date22/10/1940
CasualtiesMr E.L. Oakley, Photographer; Mr J.W. Parsons, Photographer
AircraftHandley Page Hampden Mk I P4354
Took off fromBoscombe Down, Wiltshire
Purpose of flightAir-to-air photographic sortie with Brewster Buffalo Mk I AS430
Incident locationBower Chalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Incident detailsBoth pilots escaped by parachute after their aircraft collided


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