Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 13/12/1942 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Fg Off T.L. French, P; WO A. McFadyen, WOp; Flt Sgt J.R. Harper, Radar Op; Flt Sgt C. McGregor, WOp/AG; Lt S. Kaulis, US Army Signal Corps, TFU Defford |
| Aircraft | Vickers Wellington Mk III X3707 |
| Took off from | Defford, Worcestershire |
| Purpose of flight | Experimental flight |
| Incident location | Craiglockhart View, Edinburgh |
| Incident details | 1hr into the flight, the special equipment on board failed and the aircraft was instructed to return to base. At some stage shortly thereafter the port engine failed and, after passing over Turnhouse, aircraft entered stall and spun-in |