Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 31/10/1942 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr D.H.M. Horner, RAE FTO |
| Aircraft | General Aircraft Hotspur Mk II B821 |
| Took off from | Farnborough, Hampshire |
| Purpose of flight | The glider was testing parachute dive landing technique in which a 7ft-diameter parachute was deployed to allow 8,000ft/min rate of descent |
| Incident location | Hartford Bridge, Hampshire |
| Incident details | Pull-out was initiated too late. Only the pilot survived, seriously injured in the crash |