Thunder & Lightnings

Test Flying Memorial

"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Date12/03/1928
CasualtiesFlt Lt S.M. Kinkead, RAF High Speed Flight P
AircraftSupermarine S.5 N221
Took off fromCalshot
Purpose of flightSpeed trials
Incident locationSolent off Calshot
Incident detailsIn poor visibility, over flat calm sea and at very high speed aircraft flew into water


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