Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Date | 11/11/1960 |
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Casualties | Flt Lt J.S. Duncan AFC, P Handling Squadron A&AEE |
Aircraft | Gloster Meteor T Mk 7 WF766 |
Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
Purpose of flight | not known |
Incident location | Lyme Regis, Dorset |
Incident details | Seventeen minutes after take-off, aircraft disintegrated in normal flight |