Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 15/10/1945 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Flt Lt Daniel Joseph Cotter (pilot), Flt Sgt Arthur Edward Bedwell (navigator), WO Edward Moore (meteorological air observer) |
| Aircraft | Airspeed Oxford Mk I PH480 |
| Took off from | Brawdy, Pembrokeshire |
| Purpose of flight | Experimental night radar meteorological research flight. |
| Incident location | Cardigan Bay |
| Incident details | Aircraft was due to overfly a marker dropped into the sea taking readings at 100ft intervals up to 1,500ft using a radar altimeter to secure accuracy. At 0200hr while descending to 200ft the aircraft impacted the sea. No recovery of bodies or wreckage proved possible. Aircraft and crew were from the RAF Radar Meteorological Flight based at Defford, but detached to Brawdy for this particular sortie. |