Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 06/05/1942 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | AC2 Frank Edmond Bartlett |
| Aircraft | Miles Master Mk I T8852 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Flight test of Miles inertia device requiring dives from 10,000ft with rear seat occupied |
| Incident location | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | On sixth dive at 6,000ft whilst pulling out at 7g, the port wing failed, control was lost and, with extreme difficulty, the pilot baled out. The aircraft crashed close to the airfield, killing the passenger |