Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Date | 18/02/1946 |
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Casualties | Flt Lt Philmore DFC, Rotol TP, Staverton |
Aircraft | Supermarine Spitfire F Mk 21 LA216 |
Took off from | Staverton, Gloucestershire |
Purpose of flight | Endurance testing of contra-rotating propeller |
Incident location | Barnstaple, Devon |
Incident details | Hit high ground in poor visibility |