Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 25/07/1945 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr L. Gregory, Armament Test Squadron A&AEE TP |
| Aircraft | Hawker Tempest Mk V NV946 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Test flight to check rocket tail clearance using zero length launchers |
| Incident location | Enford Range, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | The aircraft dived at an angle of more than 40ï‚° to release store at 1,500ft. It then turned steeply to port, flicked inverted and dived to the ground, impacting at more than 400 m.p.h. |