MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway. He grabbed the ...
He grabbed the radio to warn the pilot, his older brother Dick Rutan. But Dick never heard the message. Nine days and three minutes later, Dick, along with copilot Jeana Yeager, completed one of ...
LONDON—A World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane crashed near a British air force base in eastern England on Saturday, killing the pilot, the U.K. defense ministry said. The ministry confirmed ...
(Tech. Sgt. Matthew Plew/Air Force) LONDON—A World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane crashed near a British air force base in eastern England on Saturday, killing the pilot, the U.K. defense ...
A British air force pilot has died after a Spitfire aircraft crashed on Saturday into a field in eastern England, police and the RAF said. The fighter aircraft was part of a commemoration of the ...
An "experienced pilot" has died after two gliders crashed while coming into land at an airfield. Emergency services were scrambled after the two aircrafts collided at the private airfield in Hinton-in ...
A British pilot died in a crash involving a World War II-era Spitfire fighter near RAF Coningsby. The RAF confirmed the pilot's death and requested privacy for the family. The Prince and Princess ...
An "experienced pilot" has died after two gliders crashed while coming into land at an airfield. Emergency services were scrambled after the two aircrafts collided at the private airfield in Hinton-in ...
A Royal Air Force pilot has died after a Spitfire crashed into a field near RAF Coningsby, in Lincolnshire. Police and emergency services rushed to the scene on Langrick Road at just before 1.20pm on ...
"Our thoughts are with the pilot’s loved ones," the Prince and Princess of Wales said in a tribute message over the weekend Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...
LONDON - A British Royal Air Force pilot died after a Spitfire belonging to a Battle of Britain memorial fleet crashed in eastern England on May 25, officials said. The World War II fighter plane ...
Editor’s note: This story was updated May 14 6:53 p.m. Eastern Time with additional information, including the pilot’s name. A U.S. Air Force instructor pilot died from his injuries after his ...