Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 05/11/1914 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | E.T. Busk, P |
| Aircraft | Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c |
| Took off from | Farnborough, Hampshire |
| Purpose of flight | Busk, a Cambridge graduate, young and popular, was developing a brilliant reputation as an authority on aircraft stability. The B.E.2c he was flying was fitted with a prototype 8-cylinder air-cooled V engine |
| Incident location | Farnborough, Hampshire |
| Incident details | The aircraft took off and at 1,000ft became engulfed in flame. A simple fuel leak on to the hot exhaust was determined to have been the cause. |