ZUM4939155: Aug. 08, 1954 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands celebrates her fifteenth birthday - with unique birthday cake.: Accompanied by mother Queen Juliana - Princess Irene of the Netherlands admires a unique Birthday Cake in the form of the Ditch Aircraft Carrier Karel Doorman - during her Fifteenth Birthday celebration in Amsterdam, The cake was presented to her by the Royal Dutch Navy / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4939775: Aug. 08, 1954 - Plane crashes in Road - R.A.F. Pilot swerves through Hedge to save Paris Airliner: The pilot of a twin engined R.A.F. Anson aircraft making an emergency landing at Northolt today swerved his plane off the runway with passengers on board. The Anson careered 150 yards then crashed through the hedge and a cross West-End road. It narrowly missed a bus and finished up about 200 yards from the runway facing the direction in which it had been travelling. The pilot, Air Commodore Cedric Bell, had taken off from White Waltham R.A.F. Station, Bucks. He was flying over Nortbolt when he was forced to land because of engine trouble. He did not have time to circle the airfield and land in the wind, but was forced to attempt to touch on the runway he saw the Vickers aircraft preparing to take off and swerved his machine on to the grass. The air commodore had severe face injures the other two fliers in the plane suffered shock / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4939885: Aug. 08, 1954 - Demonstration of the U, S, Army's New 75 mn skysweeper anti-aircraft gun: The United States Army's new Skysweeper, a large caliber automatic anti-aircraft artillery weapon, was fired at radio controlled and towed targets before High ranking British Army officials and members of the press, at Weybourne, Norfolk, today. The new gun which can find and track approaching aircraft as far away as 15 miles, is capable of firing on and defeating air targets as far away as four miles. The weapon, equipped with radar, computer, and gun all on one carriage, operates day or night regardless of weather conditions, even when aircraft are invisible in a blanketing fog / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4940114: Aug. 08, 1954 - He plans to sail round the world.: 21 year old Wolfgang Kraker von Schwarzenfeld sailed into Newhaven during the weekend on a raft with sails in which he plans to sail round the world. The raft is home-made a platform lashed to two cylinder shaped floats. Under the floats are storage tanks holding 110 gallons of fresh water. Wolfgang navigates and sleeps on one float. The other is his galley and storeroom. The sails are his one extravagance, he got the best German sailmaker he could find to make them. He calls his raft the “Sea Arrow” / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4940150: Aug. 08, 1954 - Holland and Indonesia Part - The Goverments of the Netherlands and of Indonesia last Night Formally decided, by Signature of a protocol and attached correspondence, to terminate the Dutch-Indonesian union signed in 1949. Relations between the two countries will be regulated by international paets. he documents will not be published until this evening, but speeched by Dr. Luns, Chiarman of the Dutch Delegation, and Dr. Sunarjo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Indonesian Republic, Show that agreemets have been made on foreign, cultural and defence matters. Possibly differences in the future would go to the International Court of Justice at the Haugue. Keystone Photo Shows: - Dr. Luns and Dr. Sunarjo seen signing the aggrement at the Hague Yesterday / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4940208: Aug 08, 1954 - One of Hollywood's” Five most Beautiful Faces”: Girl with the golden keys is 24-year old Dolores Dorn, one of Hollywood's” Five Most Beautiful Faces”, who has been filming here. She wears pagoda earrings - which are also golden. Friends gave her the 200 necklet as a going-away gift before she left Hollywood / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4940369: Aug. 08, 1954 - Preview of the National Radio Show Underwater Television Demonstration By The Navy: Photo Shows L-R: - Wren Jill Hemsworth of Reigate and Wren Mavis Catheters of Manchester looking at the demonstration display of the Underwater Television by Marconi-Seibe Gorman Tele Camera - as used by the Royal Navy in the Comet Crash at Elba, It is one of the National Radio show which opens at Earl's Court tomorrow / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4940419: Aug. 08, 1954 - New Pilot Training School. Instruction In Jet Aircraft Control: The new pilot-training scheme of the Royal Air Forces - known asprovost-vampire Sequence, under which pilots qualify for their wings on jet aircraft is now under full operation. Pupils first enter No. 6. Flying Training School, at Ternhill, Shropshire, where a 30 weeks course is taken.. They are taught to fly provost pi ~ ton engine trainer. The Provost is characteristically like the Vampire Jet. On passing out at Ternhill students then go on to No. 5. Flying Training School at Oakington, Cambridgeshire for a further 30 weeks training on the Vampire T ~ ll a side-by side jet trainer. At the end of this course they finally obtain their wings. This new scheme reduces training to two types of aircraft and reduses wastage, both in cost and time on the production of jet pilots / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4940428: Aug. 08, 1954 - Britain Produces The Fastest Fighter Aircraft Its Top Speed May Be 1,000 M.P.H: Britain has produced what experts believe is the fastest fighter aircraft in the world. The aircraft, known as the 'P.L.' is a sleek, delta-winged single seater, powered by two Armstrong-Siddeley Sapphire turbojet engines buried in the fuselage. The new fighter is capable of at least 800 m.p.h. in level flight, but its performance is being kept strictly secret. It may well be able to reach 1,000 m.p.h. It is the first British aircraft capable of flying faster than sound in level flight. All the other” sonic Bang” aircraft have broken the sound barrier in a dive. Wing commander Roland P. Beaumont, 33, chief test pilot of the English Electric Company, flew the machine for the first time yesterday / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4940496: Aug. 08, 1954 - Well known Italian Boxer Sues for divorce... Wife brought him bad luck - claim boxing fans: Tiberio Mitri the well known Italian Middle Weight Boxing Champion - is applying for a divorce from his wife Mrs. Fulvio Mitri - who was” Miss Italy 1948”. They were married in 1950. In Italy Mrs. Mitri has been booed by ringside fans who claim that she brought bad luck to her husband / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4939228: Aug 08, 1954 - Six year old boy alive after falling from car.: Ian Skingley, the six year old son of Mr. Ronald Skingley, of Oakhurst -road, West Ewell, fell out of his father's car at 55 m.p.h. rolled over and over in the road, then got up and ran to his mother with a few minor head grazes. “We expected to find him dead,” said Mrs. Doris Skingley today. The Incident Happed at the Hants market town of Kingsclore / Bridgeman Images