Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 12/07/1942 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Sqn Ldr C.L.F. Colmore, High Alt Flight A&AEE TP; Plt Off K. Radford, AG; Sgt A.J. Smith, Obs; Sgt R.P. Gillott, WOp/AG; Mr C.V. Abbott, FTO |
| Aircraft | Vickers Wellington Mk VI W5795 |
| Took off from | Boscombe Down, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | Stanley, Derbyshire |
| Incident details | Aircraft dived at high speed from high altitude after pilot was injured by detached propeller blade penetrating pressure cabin |