Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 24/08/1956 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr E.B. Smith, Gloster Aircraft TP |
| Aircraft | Gloster Javelin FAW Mk 4 XA644 |
| Took off from | Moreton Valence, Gloucestershire |
| Purpose of flight | Test flight |
| Incident location | Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire |
| Incident details | Involved in mid-air collision with CFS Hunter. Pilot and navigator involuntarily ejected by impact. Navigator and Hunter pilot survived. Shroud lines were severed on Smith's seat |