Thunder & Lightnings

Test Flying Memorial

"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Date25/02/1954
CasualtiesFlt Lt K.W. Dalton-Golding DFC, Handley Page deputy CTP; Mr M.G. Goodridge, FTO
AircraftEnglish Electric Canberra B Mk 2 WJ622
Took off fromRadlett, Hertfordshire
Purpose of flightProduction test flight
Incident locationRadlett, Hertfordshire
Incident detailsFlight controls jammed on take-off, aircraft hit railway embankment adjacent to airfield


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