Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 01/03/1944 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Wg Cdr P.F. Webster DSO DFC & Bar, Performance Test Squadron A&AEE TP |
| Aircraft | Fairey Firefly Mk I Z1839 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Rate-of-roll trials |
| Incident location | Goodworth, Clatford, Hampshire |
| Incident details | Aircraft broke up after multiple rolls to port and starboard and spun-in (pilot had graduated from the first ETPS course the day before) |