Happy End: photographs of miraculous aeroplane crashes where everyone survived
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Happy End: photographs of miraculous aeroplane crashes where everyone survived
Lots of great military pics in todays on line Daily Telegraph. Sorry no link, can someone help me out?
Here is a link to the author's website
dietmar eckell - happy end
It is a fantastic book, originally funded through Indiegogo. I was one of the subscribers.
I highly recommend it as a present for the aviation people in your life (including yourself)
dietmar eckell - happy end
It is a fantastic book, originally funded through Indiegogo. I was one of the subscribers.
I highly recommend it as a present for the aviation people in your life (including yourself)
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No mention or any photos of the remains of VH-EAC? Or have the remains all been totally removed, to alleviate any continuing embarrassment to QF? 
Onetrack, when I worked for Charlie Q in the1960s, the aircraft movements board in hangar 58 still showed the aircraft location for EAC as 'End of runway, Mauritius'.
At the risk of getting all poetic, there's a beautiful poignancy to those photos, and all the better that no-one was killed.
If anyone's got a good shot of the B-17 pancaked onto the hillside near the Black Cat gap north of Port Moresby, that'd be a great addition to the collection.
If anyone's got a good shot of the B-17 pancaked onto the hillside near the Black Cat gap north of Port Moresby, that'd be a great addition to the collection.
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Re the Mauritius incident:
I attended a talk given by a chap who was a Qantas flight engineer on Connies at the time of that accident.
The account he gave of that aborted take-off had us on the edges of our seats.
He left a profound impression on us of the skill and professionalism of the crew - and, indeed, the crews of that era, both flight-deck and cabin.
He subsequently retired as Chief Engineer of Qantas.
p.s. ISTR, seated amongst us, was a girl who was cabin crew on that flight.
I attended a talk given by a chap who was a Qantas flight engineer on Connies at the time of that accident.
The account he gave of that aborted take-off had us on the edges of our seats.
He left a profound impression on us of the skill and professionalism of the crew - and, indeed, the crews of that era, both flight-deck and cabin.
He subsequently retired as Chief Engineer of Qantas.
p.s. ISTR, seated amongst us, was a girl who was cabin crew on that flight.
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