Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 31/10/1944 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Plt Off J.G. Swain, Flight Engineer; LAC W. Griffiths, Aircraft Fitter |
| Aircraft | Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle ST Mk V V1762 |
| Took off from | Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorkshire |
| Purpose of flight | Air test of new engines |
| Incident location | Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorkshire |
| Incident details | Very shortly after take-off port engine began to vibrate seriously and was throttled back to quarter power. Pilot completed short circuit but lost control and entered stall turn to port before striking ground after dive from 500ft |