Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 09/11/1945 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Flt Lt R.A. Marks AFM, Aero Flight RAE Farnborough TP |
| Aircraft | Heinkel 162A-2 AM61 |
| Took off from | RAE Farnborough, Hampshire |
| Purpose of flight | Pilot was displaying the aircraft to Army Staff College, Camberley |
| Incident location | Aldershot, Hampshire |
| Incident details | Whilst performing a slow roll the aircraft yawed violently then stalled. The pilot lost control and one fin and rudder detached. The aircraft dived and a violent pull-out was attempted but the tailplane then broke away and the aircraft crashed, killing the pilot and a Canadian soldier on the ground |