Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 11/08/1942 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr K.G. Seth-Smith, Hawker Aircraft TP |
| Aircraft | Hawker Typhoon Mk I B R7692 |
| Took off from | Langley, Berkshire |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | Thorpe, Surrey |
| Incident details | Tail detached due to fatigue failure of bracket holding elevator mass balance. This accident provided the first clear evidence of the cause of many Typhoon fatal accidents |