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In April 1971, a Royal Navy survey launch was blown up at the port of Baltimore, in the Republic of Ireland. The motor boat, the Stork, was towed out to sea and destroyed by an explosive device before dawn, while the crew was ashore. [1] Another British boat, the Puffin, received minor damage in the same action. [2]
Kevin Whyman (4 October 1975 – 1 August 2015) was an English rower and air pilot. Whyman died in an aviation accident at the 2015 CarFest. Whyman rowed for the King's School Rowing Club. [1] In 1996 and 1997, he was the cox for The Boat Race-winning Cambridge team. [1] Whyman was a Royal Air Force trained pilot and a member of the Gnat ...
For Those in Peril is a 1944 British war film produced by Ealing Studios that marked the directorial debut of Charles Crichton.The film was developed from a short story by Richard Hillary, an RAF pilot killed in action in January 1943.
A British Royal Air Force pilot has died after the World War II era Spitfire he was flying crashed into a field in England. The RAF announced Saturday the pilot had died in a “tragic accident ...
The aircraft was carrying national newspapers. The pilot and co-pilot survived but the aircraft was written off. [48] Rapide G-AGWR. In 1951 a de Havilland Dragon Rapide DH89A (registration: G-AGWR) operated by Morton Air Services, overshot the runway and ended up near the Airport boundary. The aircraft survived and was subsequently re ...
Neil Bowditch, 47, and seven-year-old Kacper Kacprzak were killed during the accident in the Republic of Ireland in May 2018. British pilot and child killed in crash in Ireland, inquest hears Skip ...
Young was born in Belgravia, London, [1] to Henry George Melvin Young, a British solicitor, and Fannie Rowan Young. [2] He was educated at Amesbury School in Hindhead, Westminster School class of 1933, Kent School in Kent, Connecticut class of 1932, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he was part of the winning crew of the 1938 Boat Race.
A former RAF pilot who launched a charity which flies humanitarian aid to isolated communities has died, with his wife paying tribute to him having “lavished 103 years of love” into the world.