Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 23/08/1945 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr H. Becker, Aero Flight RAE Farnborough FTO |
| Aircraft | de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VI RF830 |
| Took off from | Farnborough, Hampshire |
| Purpose of flight | Testing automatic g restictor tabs |
| Incident location | Wanborough Park, nr Guildford, Surrey |
| Incident details | On fifth dive at 360 m.p.h. as soon as g was applied aircraft began porpoising violently with increasing amplitude. Break-up then began; pilot was thrown clear, FTO's body found in wreckage |