Burma Crate Fixing ?

Details of crash on 20th Jan 1920

Taken from 19 Sqn ORB and added to…

As a result of a flying accident Fg Off Edward Gordon Cayley was killed and Mr Philip Aubrey Wells seriously injured when their aircraft a de Havilland DH.60 Moth. G-EBPS, owned by Mr Wells crashed on the Aerodrome. The aeroplane wa son a flight between London and Cambridge. Cayley was flying when it became involved in spin when near the aerodrome, as a result it nose-dived and crashed head on into the ground Cayley being killed by the impact. Wills’ who received severe scalp wounds, was removed to hospital in Cambridge, in a serious condition.

I note from this website

http://www.innerspaceexploration.com/Avenger.html

“Of the nine aircraft known to be in Lake Washington , Innerspace Exploration Team personnel were the first to discover six of them: F4F Wildcat, CB Republic, F6F Hellcat, SNV-2 Valiant, F4U Corsair, and this TBF-1 Avenger.
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I think other 3 aircraft are PB4Y-2 Privateer #59695 which crashed 26th August 1956 Martin Mariner PBM-5 #59172 which crashed 6th May 1949 and Lockheed PV2-D Harpoon whitch crashed 4th Sept 1947

Unsire of Harpoon serial MAY be 37328

The “F4U Corsair” is Corsair FG-1D # 87833

The Corsair wreckage is of Corsair FG-1D # 87833 flown by Ens Stanley M Hayes that ctashed in Lake Washington after a midair collision with another Corsair FG-1D #88382 flown by Lt.(jg) Ralph H Milleson on 29th July 1950. They were being flown out by VA-891 from NAS Seattle. Both pilots survived.

The latter one ditched and was recovered on the 11th August 1983 and after restoration can be found at the Museum of Flight at Seattle

http://dcsfilms.com/Site_4/Corsair_lake_washington.html

Its a case of Google better Indexing IWM website than IWM can do

Once went to a presentation where someone showed me google better at tracking a Fed Ex parcel than Fed Ex website!

To elimiate Partridge Green

suggest west_sussex_county_times_events_index_by_place.pdf
West Sussex County Times of 1 August 1941 is consulted!

SOUTH OF ENGLAND VILLAGE
01/08/1941
Junkers 88 Crashes in Village
German Bomber crashed in Village details of near misses of inhabitants
West Sussex County Times
5g
No

technically it is not a B-24 but a PB4Y Privateer

Air Britain Aeromilitaria Spring 2009 Part 1

EE454 Completed as Mk IV; A&AEE 15.10.45 for high speed trials named Britannia; world air speed record attempt at 603 mph, Herne Bay, Kent, 7.11.45; Glosters 22.11.45 for examination of airframe; RAE 6.12.45 for high speed trials; EPTS 20.1.48; Westlands 18.5.49; allocation of 6712M cancelled; to 6735M 6.12.49 at SLAW Old Sarum.

EE455 Completed as Mk IV; A&AEE 28.10.45 for high speed trials named Forever Amber; world air speed record attempt at 608 mph, Herne Bay, Kent, 7.11.45; Glosters 16.4.47 for mods; RAE 24.7.47 for investigation of turbine vibration; Glosters 3.9.48 for mods; RAE 19.9.49 for high-speed low-level photography trials; Fairey White Walham 10.2.53 for development of powered controls; RAE 6.8.53 SOC 1.1.54.

Air Britain Aeromilitaria Autumn 2009 Part 2

EE550 CSA at Glosters 1.8.46; High Speed Flt Tangmere 3.10.46; Glosters Cat B 12.12.46; 6 MU 1.3.48; Westlands 24.6.49; 38 MU 7.11.49; 615 Sqn 14.8.50 coded V6-R. Dived into ground from 20,00 feet 7m W of Ashford, Kent 6.11.51; presumed due to anoxia; P/O T C Hood killed