Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 21/07/1945 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr A.O. Moffett AFC, CRD Power Jets CTP |
| Aircraft | Gloster Meteor Mk III EE291 |
| Took off from | Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire |
| Purpose of flight | Development of reheat on RB.37 engines |
| Incident location | Halls Farm, Blaby, Leicestershire |
| Incident details | Pilot was authorised to display aircraft in high-speed flight over victory celebration at Whetstone, Leics, company factory. Control was apparently lost in cloud after flypast and aircraft seen flick-rolling before inverted impact with ground |
| Web link | Local newspaper letter about the crash |