Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 18/05/1954 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr E. Griffiths, Armstrong Siddeley Motors CTP |
| Aircraft | Westland Wyvern S Mk 4 VZ747 |
| Took off from | Bitterswell, Warwicks |
| Purpose of flight | Engine relight trials |
| Incident location | Palton, Warwicks |
| Incident details | After three successful relights a fourth was attempted but failed. The pilot attempted to regain the airfield but broke off a turn on to finals and landed wheels-down on a field crossed by deep ditches which would have been invisible to him in the poor light. The aircraft broke up after losing its undercarriage |