Yuri Gagarin's YAK-18
The name 'Yuri' is quite common in Russia. But most of us heard it and had it firmly fixed in our minds by this century's greatest feat in space flight — the first and up to date, only orbital flight.
Above is Yuri Gagarin's YAK-18 on which he as ...
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The Wreckage of RCyAF Jet Provost
This is the wreckage of the RCyAF Jet Provost CJ 703 that crashed on Monday into a coconut grove on the fringe of the Katunayake air-field killing its pilot.
In the foreground is a lone airman keeping watch to ensure that no evidence is tampered w...
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Crash in Coast of Ratmalana
This picture of Mr. Dudley Ranabahu, Air Ceylon pilot was taken last night by a "Mirror" cameraman at the Lunawa Hospital. Besides him is his wife, who had rushed on hearing that the plane had crashed.
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Air Crash in England
A BACIII airliner — Britain's newest aircraft — took off from Wisley, Surrey recently on a circular trip during which more tests were to be made on aerodynamics and ended in disaster when it lost height rapidly and plunged into this field at Stone...
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Surviving Super Constellation Crash
A miracle Atlantic rescue went last week with a ship-to-shore airlift for injured survivors. They were snatched from a sea-hell when their super constellation airliner ditched in mid-Atlantic.
Seventeen of the 44 survivors aboard the Swiss rescue ...
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"'Eagle' Airborne Again"
'Eagle' Airborne Again
After 2-month repair at Katunayake
A Cunard Eagle Air-ways four-engined D.C.-6 plane left Katunayake airport on Thursday morning after extensive repairs to its engines and undercarriage.
This aircraft which was carrying a c...
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Swiss Air Crash
Picture shows police and experts searching through a field in Duerrenaesch, Switzerland, in an effort to identify wreckage found after the crash of the Rome-bound Swiss Air Caraville jet recently. Eighty people aboard the airliner lost their lives...
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Plane Crashed in London
London Airport: The only piece of recognisable wreckage, of the the British European Airways Vanguard airliner which crashed in thick fog at London Airport, was the pilot's cockpit.
All 36 persons aboard the airliner, on a night flight from Edinbu...
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Plane Crash in Ratmalana
The Indian Airlines Viscount that crashed yesterday at the Ratmalana Airport. (More pictures on Page 3 and 16)
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