1942 Herefordshire TRE Halifax crash
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1942-herefordshire-tre-halifax-crash-179-6198172
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1942 Herefordshire TRE Halifax crash
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V9977 was an Handley Page Halifax II that had been sent to the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) at RAF Defford to be used as a flying testbed for the H2S radar. On the afternoon of 7 June 1942, one of its Rolls-Royce Merlin engines caught fire and led to the aircraft crashing near the England-Wales border, killing all eleven crew-members. Among the dead was Alan Blumlein of EMI, who was well known as the inventor of stereophonic sound recording and the 405-line television system u
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_Herefordshire_TRE_Halifax_crash
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2020-02-28T10:28:39Z
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2024-09-04T22:54:35Z
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