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



Date21/09/1916
CasualtiesLt W.H.S. Garnett
AircraftAvro 521 7520
Took off fromTesting Squadron, Upavon, Wiltshire
Purpose of flightTesting of prototype which had proved longitudinally unstable and unpleasant to fly
Incident locationGosport, Hampshire
Incident detailsnot known


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