MPX5099259: Jet Crash-Lands on Test Flight. Trouble hit the bus-stop Jet - the British Aircraft Corporation's One-Eleven - for the third time yesterday(Thursday 20-8-64). One of the planes on a test flight from the B.A.C. airfield at Wishley, Surrey, made a wheels-up emergency landing on Salisbury Plain. The crew of four were unhurt - and the plane was only slightly damaged, August 1964 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5099263: Accidents - Air: Hostess Jane lives as plane dives to disaster: An air hostess staggered into the arms of rescuers on Thursday (20-3-69) after walking out of the blazing wreckage of an airliner. She was the sole survivor of the plane's crew of four. The airliner, a Viscount belonging to British Midland Airways, Plunged into a runway at Manchester Airport, Lancashire, seconds after taking off on a routine training flight. One of the rescuers said that the hostess, Jane Timson, "walked towards us as we raced up the runway, and didn't appear badly hurt." March 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5099274: Mr. Roger Smith has a Pixie in his garden. But it's no dream-world fairy-tale figure that's appeared... it's the remains of a genuine 1924 Parnall Pixie light aircraft. And with the help of members of the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society, of which he is secretary, he hopes to restore it to its former state. He and his friends have a mammoth task on their hands but they hope to have it rebuilt completely by its 50th anniversary. They are appealing to anyone with details or plans of the aeroplane to help them. If they are successful, the remains of the plane will once again look like it did in 1924 Meanwhile, Mr Smith, of Eversleigh Road, Coundon, Coventry (right foreground), keeps the Pixie in his garage...awaiting repairs. 24th January 1970 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5099420: Canadian Pacific immigrant ship Beaverbrae formerly the Hapag's Huascaran which was taken over by the German Navy during the second world war and used as a u-boat repair ship in Norway. Captured in 1945 and handed over to Canadian Government, the ship was sold to Canadian Pacific in 1947. Refitted and renamed Beaverbrae and used as an emigrant carrier on the St. John - Bremerhaven/Bremen route. Seen here being towed through the lock gates of the London docks. 25th July 1949 / Bridgeman Images