Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 04/02/1943 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Flt Lt S.F. Reiss, Performance Test Sqn A&AEE TP; Sgt J. Fielding, Flt Eng; Mr J.J. Unwin MBE, FTO |
| Aircraft | Handley Page Halifax Mk II W7917 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Rudder angle test |
| Incident location | Sutton Scotney, Hampshire |
| Incident details | Aircraft dived from 12,000ft, pulled into stall turn then entered flat spin and crashed in that condition. Top half of one rudder was found to have broken away |