Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 21/10/1943 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Fg Off N.G. Donald, Armstrong Whitworth TP; Mr T. Timms; two ATC cadets on air experience also lost their lives (J.F.S. Cheriton and L.W. White) |
| Aircraft | Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle Mk II V1741 |
| Took off from | Brockworth, Gloucestershire |
| Purpose of flight | Production test flight |
| Incident location | Purton, Gloucestershire |
| Incident details | Aircraft was seen, at 3,000ft, to commence a turn to the left which developed into an increasingly steep dive. This was finally recovered but the aircraft struck the ground flat at high speed |