Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 05/02/1951 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr P.G. Robarts, Supermarine PTP |
| Aircraft | Supermarine Attacker F Mk 1 WA477 |
| Took off from | South Marston, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Third production test flight proving pressurisation and effect on performance of ventral tank |
| Incident location | Marlborough, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | On take-off puffs of black smoke were seen in jet efflux. Aircraft was next seen at high speed pulling out of a dive, then rolling inverted before impacting the ground at well over 500 m.p.h. |