Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 03/07/1941 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Flt Lt S.A. Ellaby, RAE High Altitude Test Flight TP |
| Aircraft | Supermarine Spitfire Mk II P8273 |
| Took off from | Farnborough, Hampshire |
| Purpose of flight | Flight to altitude compiling temperature records |
| Incident location | Over Wallop, Hampshire |
| Incident details | Aircraft hit ground during subsequent aerobatics |