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



Date03/07/1941
CasualtiesFlt Lt S.A. Ellaby, RAE High Altitude Test Flight TP
AircraftSupermarine Spitfire Mk II P8273
Took off fromFarnborough, Hampshire
Purpose of flightFlight to altitude compiling temperature records
Incident locationOver Wallop, Hampshire
Incident detailsAircraft hit ground during subsequent aerobatics


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