Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 28/02/1942 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Plt Off J.C. Fisher RCAF, P; Plt Off T.W. Caxton RCAF, P; Flt Sgt D.L. Mullins |
| Aircraft | Armstrong-Whitworth Albemarle Mk I P1368 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Intensive flying trials |
| Incident location | Shalbourne, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | Failure of the starboard engine led to the feathering of the propeller on that side. The aircraft was by then on the brink of a stall but a flat turn to the right was attempted. The starboard wing dropped and the aircraft spun-in from 500ft |