Aviation Militaire (RAF) – Catastrophes / Incidents : collision entre deux bombardiers à Dunmow, 1938. - 2 photos - Photo n° 596211

Photo n° 596211 :

Six die when bombers crash - stangre note near 'plane wreckage. 
All six occupants were killed when two Royal Air Force bombers collided in the air over Dunmow, Essex, and crashed in flames a mile apart. The machines were identified as Vickers Wellesley bombers of the type specially built for long-distance development flights. A strange feature of the disaster (which occurred at night) was the finding near one of the machine of a note reading "What will this plane look like in a few minutes?". 
Photo shows:- the wreckage of the bomber which came down on Marks Hill, near Dunmow Isolation Hospital. 
G  October 19th 1938  PN.r. 
Run way R.A.F. balloon drifts 80 miles then lands on telegraph wires. 
A balloon which broke drift from the Larkhill R.A.F. Flying School at Salisbury drifted over five counties and a distance of 80 miles before coming down on telegraph wires at Watling Street, Hockliffe, near Dunstable. The balloon had been engaged on manoeuvres over Salisbury Plain when it broke away. An autogiro, airplane and scores of police and military cars then chesed it. 
It was two hours before its occupants, Colonel G.J. Giffard, Staff Officer Second Division Aldershot Command, and Pilot Officer Green, could be rescued. 
Photo shows: Loading the balloon on a lorry after it had come down. 
CLEM  October 25th 1934  PN.r. 
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