Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 21/12/1950 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Flt Lt D.J.M. Macdonald, TFU Defford |
| Aircraft | Glostser Meteor F Mk 4 VT342 |
| Took off from | Defford, Worcestershire |
| Purpose of flight | Aircraft flying as target on radar trials |
| Incident location | Bransford House Farm, Worcester |
| Incident details | Shortly after take-off aircraft emerged in a shallow dive from low cloud and turned inverted before hitting ground |