Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 16/03/1945 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr J.R. Tobin AFC, RAE Farnborough TP on loan to Blackburn |
| Aircraft | Blackburn Firebrand TF Mk III DK386 |
| Took off from | Brough, Yorkshire |
| Purpose of flight | First production aircraft flight to test behaviour of elevator and spring tabs in high-speed flight |
| Incident location | Brough, Yorkshire |
| Incident details | Dived from 11,500ft, at 4,000ft complete structural break-up occurred starting at rear fuselage joints |