Thunder & Lightnings

Test Flying Memorial

"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Date31/08/1945
CasualtiesSub-Lt K.W.A. Fehler RN; Lt L.R.J. Habgood RN, pilots C Squadron A&AEE
AircraftMiles Monitor TT Mk II NP409
Took off fromBoscombe Down, Wiltshire
Purpose of flightIntensive flying trials
Incident locationSea off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
Incident detailsThe aircraft was seen to rill inverted, and dived steeply into the sea from 2,000ft


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