Wings Over Somerset author Peter Forrester, from Yeovil, has researched post war plane crashes that were either in Somerset or have a connection to it.
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The airport was shut for two hours on Monday, after the World War II plane came in at 15.30 GMT.
The pilot of a First World War replica plane who was killed when it crashed at a Hampshire airfield was a 68-year-old man from Horsham in West Sussex.
That edge is the main reason why no U.S. soldier has been killed by hostile aircraft since the Korean War, and no U.S. pilot has been downed by an enemy plane since the Vietnam War.
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They hated Hitler and if his plane shortened the war by a minute it was worth losing their house.
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Peters, 64, has been one of the last people that about 20, 000 soldiers so far have seen before boarding the plane for the war zone -- and one of the first seen upon return.
In 1942, the Duke of Kent, youngest brother of King George VI, was killed in a plane crash during a war mission to Iceland.
W. Bush survived the crash of the plane he piloted in that war.
Critics carp that the plane is unneeded in a post-Cold War world and that we should, instead, only upgrade the F-15 and F-16 and wait for the proposed Joint Strike Fighter aircraft that's coming several years hence.
Critics carp that the plane is unneeded in a post-Cold War world and that we should, instead, only upgrade the F-15 and F-16 and wait for the proposed Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft that's coming several years hence.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says brown tree snakes have wiped out most of Guam's native populations of forest birds since being accidentally introduced to the island after World War II, probably after they stowed away on a ship or plane from their native range in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
"During the World War II, thousands of aircraft carried two pigeons in case they the plane was downed so they could send messages, " he said.
The Air Force will posthumously award the Silver Star on Friday to Francis Gary Powers, whose capture in 1960 after his spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union became a Cold War flash point.
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During World War II, America's P51 Mustang fighter, a single-engine prop plane, creamed the first fleet of German combat jets, the Messerschmitt 262.
And if deploying that higher-priced plane presents a more credible deterrent to potential aggressors that dissuades them from making war, then its cost advantage over less capable planes is incalculably great.
His most recent acquisition is an AT-6 training plane used by the Tuskegee airmen, the black pilots who flew as the 332nd Fighter Group in World War II.
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