Thunder & Lightnings

Test Flying Memorial

"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Date21/03/1950
CasualtiesMr Barraclough, Bristol Aeroplane Company TP; A. Bolton, radio officer; E.C. Brunt, engineer; F.C.T. Pullen, electrician
AircraftBristol 170 Freighter G-AIHH
Took off fromFilton, Bristol
Purpose of flightTest flight, C of A renewal
Incident locationCowbridge, Glamorgan
Incident detailsCrashed in circumstances almost identical to those of May 6, 1949, and leading to structural failure of the fin


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