The anniversary event will commemorate elite WW2 glider pilots who were an important part of the D-Day operations Glider pilots from World War Two will be remembered during a flypast to mark the ...
The pilots had just four basic instruments ... to fund the glider’s restoration and the construction of the World War II Glider and Military Museum to house it in Iron Mountain.
during the closing months of World War II. Earl Remmel and Leslie Speer's bomber was damaged before they could deliver their payload on a rail depot near Trento, forcing the two pilots to ...
A glider pilot died in a crash after his tow-rope became detached from another aircraft during take-off, a report has found. The 47-year-old, who had 131 hours of flying experience, died on 16 ...
while flying over Farrington Gurney in Somerset there was an explosion which caused the glider to crash. It landed near Paulton, leaving no survivors. One eye-witness said: "When I arrived at the ...