Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 01/05/1950 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr G.E.C. Genders AFC DFM |
| Aircraft | de Havilland D.H.108 TG283 |
| Took off from | Farnborough, Hampshire |
| Purpose of flight | Low-speed research, slideslip and stalling trials |
| Incident location | Hartley Wintney, Hampshire |
| Incident details | One clean and one dirty stall were executed but aircraft fell out of the latter in an inverted spin. Only one anti-spin chute streamed. Pilot abandoned aircraft at low altitude but canopy only partly opened |