selected military loss list, 1948
Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:53 pm
Don't know how much use this is, but I have access to some newspaper indexes dating way back, and the New York Times kept pretty good track of military losses from the early postwar years through the early 60s, and I was assembling a list of some selected losses:
A note about the methodology: the dates in the index are of when the crash stories appeared in the paper, not when they happened - this was generally a day or two beforehand. So, the date I've used for the loss date is for the day preceeding the story appearing; this is really an approximate date. And of course you can't believe everything you read in the newspapers, so you have to take the type and location data with a grain of salt as well.
Hope this is of some interest use to someone...
Cheers
Chris
A note about the methodology: the dates in the index are of when the crash stories appeared in the paper, not when they happened - this was generally a day or two beforehand. So, the date I've used for the loss date is for the day preceeding the story appearing; this is really an approximate date. And of course you can't believe everything you read in the newspapers, so you have to take the type and location data with a grain of salt as well.
Hope this is of some interest use to someone...
Cheers
Chris
Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:37 pm
Chris, you are now on this board too??
Blimey!!
Blimey!!
Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:56 pm
Hey, it's another of the usual suspects 
well met, Ollie, we what-iffers are everywhere it seems!
I caught the link here from the Key Forums - glad I did.
Cheers
Chris
well met, Ollie, we what-iffers are everywhere it seems!
I caught the link here from the Key Forums - glad I did.
Cheers
Chris
Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:32 pm
Excellent Chris!
I think we should start planning on how to take over the place!
I think we should start planning on how to take over the place!
Aircraft Losses
Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:45 pm
OK Chris,
Here's one for you.
F-105D lost in a mid-ar over Long Island Sound (6 miles NW of Kingston, NY) on May 2, 1963. One of the pilots was Republic Test Pilot Jack A. Bade. I would think that the times would carry the story. What can you come up with?????
Here's one for you.
F-105D lost in a mid-ar over Long Island Sound (6 miles NW of Kingston, NY) on May 2, 1963. One of the pilots was Republic Test Pilot Jack A. Bade. I would think that the times would carry the story. What can you come up with?????