Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 12/09/1945 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr J.C.S. Turner, RAE Farnborough TP |
| Aircraft | de Havilland Vampire F Mk I TG279 |
| Took off from | Hatfield, Hertfordshire |
| Purpose of flight | Pilot was on loan to de Havilland and engaged on level speed flying at 20,000ft and dives to 400 m.p.h. |
| Incident location | RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire |
| Incident details | 20min after take-off, aircraft was heard diving at very high speed. It emerged from cloud over Greenham Common, diving inverted. It impacted the ground close to the RAF station headquarters and disintegrated |