Test Flying Memorial
"...and everywhere the
blue sky belongs to them
and is their appointed rest
and their native country"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| Date | 02/10/1963 |
|---|---|
| Casualties | Mr J.R. Green, Shorts Belfast TP |
| Aircraft | Short SC.1 XG905 |
| Took off from | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Purpose of flight | Evaluation of auto-stabiliser in attitude control |
| Incident location | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Incident details | Gyro input fault at 30ft above ground, produced roll and pitch inputs which were impossible for the pilot to control. Aircraft rolled inverted and crashed 5min after take-off |