Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 05/03/1949 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Gp Cpt T.B. Cooper OBE DFC, A&AEE Superintendent of Flying |
| Aircraft | Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 RA382 |
| Took off from | Farnborough, Hampshire |
| Purpose of flight | After modification by Gloster to near Mark 8 standard, aircraft was returned to Farnborough for various tests. This sortie was flown to carry out stick force per g tests. |
| Incident location | Figsbury Ring, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | Nine minutes after take-off the aircraft hit the ground |