Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 04/03/1954 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr E. Beadle, Marshalls Cambridge TP |
| Aircraft | de Havilland Venom FB Mk 1 WK427 |
| Took off from | Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire |
| Purpose of flight | Post-maintenance test flight |
| Incident location | Chelmsford, Essex |
| Incident details | Aircraft entered high-speed dive as required by test programme and broke up |