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The second X-48B was modified into the X-48C starting in 2010 for further flight tests. [19] The X-48C has its vertical stabilizers moved inboard on either side of the engines, and its fuselage extended aft, both to reduce the aircraft's noise profile; it was to be powered by two JetCat turbines, each producing 80 pounds-force (360 N) of thrust.
The Korangi Creek crash took place on 27 December 1947 when an Air India flight from Karachi to Bombay crashed shortly after takeoff. All 19 passengers and 4 crew members were killed. [1] Poor visibility and malfunctioning instruments in the cockpit led the pilots to lose control. [2] The Douglas C-48 aircraft was damaged beyond repair. [3]
English: The X-48C Hybrid Wing Body aircraft flies over Rogers Dry Lake on Feb. 28, 2013, from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Calif. The long boom protruding from between the tails is part of the aircraft's parachute-deployment flight termination system.
Crews working at the site of the deadliest aviation disaster in a generation have recovered all 67 victims of the collision between two aircraft over the Potomac River in Washington, DC, officials ...
The pilot's body was found in a bog 120 km (75 mi) southwest of the crash site in 1953; the remaining eight have never been found. The 25 survivors were rescued three weeks later by an Li-2. [ 16 ] In 2016, the aircraft was salvaged and transported by water to Krasnoyarsk for restoration and eventual display in the Museum of the Exploration of ...
The crash killed both pilots and 11 of the 13 passengers aboard. The two surviving passengers were seriously injured. [1]: 5, 15 [6] Some of the 13 passengers were doctors from other states who had been due to attend a seminar at the A. T. Still University. These included Steven Z. Miller, who was killed in the crash. Dr.
Dc Plane Crash Timeline: Midair Collision Involves 67 Passengers, Crew Members, Soldiers Crew retrieve wreckage of American Airlines Flight 5342 in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., on Jan ...
March 3 – In Naval Strategic Planning Study 3, the Strategic Plans Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations asserts that U.S. Navy aircraft carriers will be able to operate successfully against the coast of the Soviet Union in the face of substantial land-based Soviet air power, stating that the carriers are "the only weapon in the possession of the U.S. which can deliver ...