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In 1942, 2,931 acres (11.9 km 2) of former ranch land were purchased on the eastern shore of Eagle Mountain Lake so the Marine Corps could set up glider operations. [3] When it was announced to the public on 23 June 1942, the base was touted as the first of its kind, and was designed to house 500 officers, 1,500 trainees, and 1,000 enlisted troops.
The pilot’s family told investigators he was planning to land at an unknown location for lunch and then head back to a privately owned airport near Fort Worth.
Fort Worth: Texas: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14: The training flight crashed during approach due to severe wake turbulence caused by a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ahead of the flight. The accident led to aircraft spacing standards behind heavy aircraft. March 3, 1972 17 35 32 Mohawk Airlines Flight 405: Albany: New York: Fairchild Hiller FH-227
A front page story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on April 15, 1944, reported that the Marines would use the air station at Eagle Mountain Lake as a finishing school for dive bomber pilots before ...
During World War II, the lake's eastern shore was the site of Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake, a military installation built to house the military's glider program. In 1965, the Tarrant Regional Water District voters approved a bond issue to allow the District to install improved controlled spillways.
The slow-motion footage in “Every Little Thing” of hummingbirds captured in flight, or beak deep in a flowering bud or hovering at 50 beats per second are awe-nudging. Director Sally Aitken ...
Second (of five) Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142A VTOL transports, 62-5922, crashes at the Vought facility at NAS Dallas, Texas, while flying at 24 mph at an altitude of 10 to 20 feet, striking the ground first with the port wingtip, then with the starboard wingtip, before making a hard landing. The wing at the time was at an angle of 45 degrees with ...
A man is in critical condition after he was injured in an accident involving a boat propeller at Eagle Mountain Lake over the weekend, according to officials with Texas Parks and Wildlife.