Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Date | 27/11/1955 |
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Casualties | Sqn Ldr F.C. Cooke DFC, A&AEE Handling squadron TP; Flt Lt P. Hyden, navigator A&AEE Handling Squadron |
Aircraft | English Electric Canberra B(I) Mk 8 |
Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
Purpose of flight | Production of pilot's notes |
Incident location | Sailisbury, Wiltshire |
Incident details | Soon after take-off with undercarriage still down, aircraft stalled and spun into ground |