Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 13/09/1944 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr F.C. Furlong, Supermarine Deputy CTP |
| Aircraft | Supermarine Spiteful NN660 |
| Took off from | High Post, Wiltshire |
| Purpose of flight | not known |
| Incident location | High Post, Wiltshire |
| Incident details | During a mock low-level dogfight with a Spitfire, also on test, NN660 flicked inverted and dived into the ground |