Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 18/04/1966 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr A. Brandon, TP; Mr A. Chalke, FTO |
| Aircraft | de Havilland Vampire T Mk 55 5C-YA |
| Took off from | Chester |
| Purpose of flight | Post major servicing test flight following wheels-up landing in Austria |
| Incident location | Llanarmom Dyffryn Ceirog, Denbighshire |
| Incident details | After take-off the aircraft suffered a total electrical failure owing to the generator drive having failed. The pitot heater would have decayed, giving spurious information from all electrical and pressure instruments. Control was lost and the aircraft struck a mountain |