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After successfully completing the course he then went on to fly the North American Harvard at RAF Little Rissington with 6FTS. In May 1940, before his flight training was complete, [ 4 ] Wellum was posted to 92 Squadron , which was a combat squadron flying Spitfires . [ 5 ]
Edward James Ruppelt (July 17, 1923 – September 15, 1960) was a United States Air Force officer probably best known for his involvement in Project Blue Book, a formal governmental study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
In 1939, as the Second World War is beginning. Dutton, whose ambition is to start his own airline, flies by the book, but MacLean is a seat-of-the-pants kind of pilot, mirroring the differences in their personalities. MacLean nearly dies after he falls off one of his plane’s pontoons and strikes his head as he attempts to tie his plane to the ...
3. Real Plates for Meals. Pan Am, the leader in luxury in the skies, used to serve meals on actual designer plates. And they used real glasses and silverware too!
The medical kit had lidocaine – a local anaesthetic – but the catheter in the kit was designed only for urinary catheterisation and was too soft for use as a chest tube. The doctors fashioned a trocar from a metal clothes hanger to stiffen the catheter, and a check valve from a bottle of water with holes poked in the cap. [ 8 ]
Donald Edward Keyhoe (June 20, 1897 – November 29, 1988) was an American Marine Corps naval aviator, [2] writer of aviation articles and stories in a variety of publications, and tour manager of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh.
Second Lieutenant Henry Ralph Lumley (20 March 1892 – 11 March 1918) was a First World War pilot and burn victim whose case was important to the future development of facial reconstruction and plastic surgery.
Dame Maggie Smith’s Downton Abbey co-star Hugh Bonneville and Harry Potter co-star Bonnie Wright have led tributes to the iconic actor after she died at the age of 89.. Bonneville, who starred ...