Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 16/07/1943 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Plt Off Allan John Slaughter RAAF (pilot), Sqn Ldr James Anthony Meade DFC |
| Aircraft | Lockheed Hudson Mk VI FK571 |
| Took off from | Defford, Worcestershire |
| Purpose of flight | Air test |
| Incident location | Ashton Under Hill, Worcestershire |
| Incident details | Port engine running rough. Pilot inadvertantly feathered starboard engine; port engine then stopped. Aircraft stalled in attempted forced landing |