ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342584
Date: | Monday 11 August 1919 |
Time: | |
Type: | Felixstowe Fury |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | N123 |
MSN: | |
Year of manufacture: | 1918 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | off Felixtowe RNAS -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Test |
Departure airport: | Felixstowe RNAS |
Destination airport: | Felixstowe RNAS |
Narrative:The Felixstowe Fury was test flown off Felixstowe, U.K, on the eve of a flight to Cape Town, South Africa.
Shortly after takeoff the Fury sideslipped and impacted the water.
Sources:
NY Times, 12-8-1919 Flight International, 14-8-1919 Location
Images:
photo (c) ?; RNAS Felixtowe; January 1919; (publicdomain)
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