Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 22/10/1940 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr E.L. Oakley, Photographer; Mr J.W. Parsons, Photographer |
| Aircraft | Handley Page Hampden Mk I P4354 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | Air-to-air photographic sortie with Brewster Buffalo Mk I AS430 |
| Incident location | Bower Chalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | Both pilots escaped by parachute after their aircraft collided |