Adam Spink and Speedbird 38, Part 1

Adam Spink and Speedbird 38, Part 1

Observing a large wide body airliner crash is, mercifully, a rare occurrence but to have one crash onto your airfield when working as the Air Traffic Supervisor in the control tower puts it in a completely different category of amazing!  This is Adams story of the day it happened to him at London’s Heathrow airport.

 

G-YMMM, the accident airframe a few years before.

 

Speedbird 38 after the crash.

 

Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Marc-Antony Payne, Aero Icarus.

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APG 357 – Gute Fahrt

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The Widow Makers

The Widow Makers

Widow Maker is an epitaph attached to aircraft that present a particular risk to the life of the pilot. Many times this name is inappropriately used but in some cases, sadly, it is all too valid.  This is the story of two such aircraft.

 

The Martin B-26B Marauder.

 

A USAF recruitment poster featuring the Marauder.

 

Chuck Yeager in the NF104, an aircraft that would nearly kill him after he lost control and ejected. His helmet was punctured and the oxygen within caught fire badly burning him.

 

The F104A.

 

The F104 was the first fighter to be fitted with the M61 Vulcan 20mm cannon.

 

Images under the Creative Commons licence, with thanks to National Museum of the USAF, Michael Wolf, Charles E Brown and the US Gov.

APG 356 – Happy New Year 2019!

APG 356 – Happy New Year 2019!

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