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On the afternoon of 7 June 1942, one of its Rolls-Royce Merlin engines caught fire and led to the aircraft crashing near the England-Wales border, killing all eleven crew-members. Among the dead was Alan Blumlein of EMI , who was well known as the inventor of stereophonic sound recording and the 405-line television system used in the UK until 1985.
Ref The World War II Heritage of Ladd Field, CEMML, Colorado State University- Chapter 4.0 Cold Weather Test – p. 22; "One of the B-17s was lost in a February crash that took the lives of the eight men on board. They had been en route to Wright Field via Sacramento, carrying records and reports of the station.
1945. On 29 September PD343 an Avro Lancaster B.1 of No. 550 Squadron RAF went missing on a flight from Italy to the United Kingdom with 26 on board. [1]On 2 October KH219 a Consolidated Liberator GR.6 of No. 203 Squadron RAF went missing in the Bay of Bengal returning to Singapore on a supply flight, 12 on board.
Plane owned by Family Celebrations, on a maintenance test flight out of South Saint Paul. Plane was following along western shoreline of lake, 0.5 miles (800 m) from shore. Last recorded position 30 miles (48 km) NE of Duluth at 1,600 feet (490 m) at 14:27. Search suspended on July 4, 2012. [200] April 7, 2013: Beechcraft 1900C (ZS-PHL) 1 ...
Oberleutnant Armin Faber was a German Luftwaffe pilot in World War II who mistook the Bristol Channel for the English Channel and landed his Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (Fw 190) intact at RAF Pembrey in South Wales. His plane was the first Fw 190 to be captured by the Allies and was tested to reveal any weaknesses that could be exploited. [1]
The hidden wreckage of a U.S. World War II plane that crashed into a Swiss glacier 72 years ago has been revealed, thanks to a heat wave sweeping parts of Europe.. The American C-53 Skytrooper ...
Roland "Bud" Wolfe (January 12, 1918 – January 28, 1994), was an American pilot who parachuted from an RAF Spitfire plane into a peat bog on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland, on 30 November 1941. The incident initiated a diplomatic row between Britain and Ireland.
The space agency confirmed Thursday that a 20-foot segment of the Challenger was discovered earlier this year off the Florida coast by divers who were searching for wreckage of missing World War ...