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On 6 September 1952, a prototype de Havilland DH.110 jet fighter crashed during an aerial display at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England. The jet disintegrated mid-air during an aerobatic manoeuvre, causing the death of pilot John Derry and onboard flight test observer Anthony Richards. Debris from the aircraft fell onto a crowd of ...
September 11 – Farnborough Air Show (Hampshire, UK) – A Wallis WA-117 Gyrocopter was being demonstrated at the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC). After a high-speed downwind run parallel to the runway, the aircraft first pitched rapidly nose-up, then nose-down, and went out of control, the rotor blades striking the propeller ...
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Derry was killed in the 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash (the DH 110 went on to become the de Havilland Sea Vixen) when his aircraft broke up because of a design fault resulting in catastrophic structural failure, with 31 fatalities including himself, his flight observer Tony Richards, and 29 spectators. The jury at the inquest returned a ...
Farnborough, Hampshire, England Aircraft broke up at 200 ft; thrown out of aircraft Bessie Coleman: United States 1926 Aviator, first African-American woman pilot Curtiss JN-4: Jacksonville, Florida, United States Thrown from aircraft after controls jammed while she was riding as a passenger. She was not wearing a seatbelt. Bob Collins: United ...
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The Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show is featuring the New Hampshire Air National Guard’s KC-46A tankers, the Vermont Air National Guard F-15 Eagle, the KC-135 Demo Team from Fairchild Air ...
1938 Santa Ana air show disaster; ... Death of Jon Egging; F. 1952 Farnborough Airshow crash; P. 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash; R.