Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 30/03/1943 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr R.V. Whitehead DFC, RAE Photo TP |
| Aircraft | Supermarine Spitfire Mk PR Mk IV |
| Took off from | Benson, Oxfordshire |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | Benson, Oxfordshire |
| Incident details | Aircraft encountered severe downdraught in the course of low-level circuit of airfield and one wing hit a hut. Aircraft crashed and burned out. Two RAF personnel killed on ground |