Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 10/09/1943 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Flt Lt F.J. Robinson, Performance Test Squadron A&AEE TP; Flt Sgt J.W. Bamber, Flight Engineer; Mr R. Stevenson, FTO |
| Aircraft | Avro Lancaster Mk III JA894 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Aircraft engaged on position error trials |
| Incident location | High Post, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | Turning to commence fourth run over Boscombe Down at 160 m.p.h. and 50ft, an Oxford Trainer on finals to High Post airfield collided with it. The three occupants of the Oxford also died |