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



Date23/10/1942
CasualtiesFlt Lt L.V. Sanders DFC, Vickers-Armstrongs TP
AircraftSupermarine Spitfire Mk VB ER713
Took off fromCastle Bromwich, Birmingham
Purpose of flightProduction test flight
Incident locationCannock, Staffordshire
Incident detailsStructural failure


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