Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 05/06/1958 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr J.S. Booth DFC, Saunders-Roe CTP |
| Aircraft | Saunders-Roe SR.53 XD151 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | For reasons never determined the pilot cut the rocket engine during take-off. The braking parachute Roman-candled and the aircraft broke up on colliding with an approach light post. The pilot, still in his seat, was thrown from the aircraft and died instantly |