Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 25/11/1952 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr C.G. Clark DFC, A Squadron A&AEE TP |
| Aircraft | de Havilland Venom FB Mk 1 WE258 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Bomb handling trials |
| Incident location | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | Collided with Valetta soon after joining Boscombe circuit, tearing off starboard wing. Valetta crash-landed without fatalities |