Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 26/08/1943 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr B. Field, Miles Aircraft TP |
| Aircraft | Miles Master Mk II DM239 |
| Took off from | Woodley, Berkshire |
| Purpose of flight | Flight test of repaired aircraft with reported rough-running engine |
| Incident location | Hurley, Maidenhead, Berkshire |
| Incident details | Entered terminal velocity dive, but at 400 m.p.h. entered cloud and began to break up. Flight test observer thrown clear and opened parachute, descending safely |