Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 21/10/1942 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Plt Off Paul Nelson Dobie (RAFVR P) |
| Aircraft | Hawker Typhoon Mk IB R7861 |
| Took off from | Acklington, Northumberland |
| Purpose of flight | The aircraft was engaged on tests of a gunsight involving gun firing into Druridge Bay Ranges, along with Typhoon R7867 |
| Incident location | Probably Druridge Bay, Northumberland |
| Incident details | P/O Dobie never returned, and neither did the other aircraft. It was considered likely that the two aircraft may have collided over the bay. |