Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 30/08/1948 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr C.L.T Sawle AFC |
| Aircraft | Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 EE568 |
| Took off from | Farnborough, Hampshire |
| Purpose of flight | Assessment of lateral and directional stability |
| Incident location | Old Windsor, Berkshire |
| Incident details | Aircraft entered a dive from which it did not recover after a piece of its structure was seen to detach |