Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 31/08/1961 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Lt Cdr Ozzie Brown RN (C Squadron A&AEE TP), Mr Terry D. Dunn (HSA/Blackburn FTO) |
| Aircraft | Blackburn Buccaneer S Mk 1 XK529 |
| Took off from | HMS Hermes in Lyme Bay, Dorset |
| Purpose of flight | The aircraft was deliberately over-trimmed for a series of catapult trials to determine hands-off launch techniques |
| Incident location | Lyme Bay, Dorset |
| Incident details | After launch the aircraft suffered partial boundary layer control blowing failure, pitched up, stalled, fell into the sea and sank nose-down almost immediately |