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Date: | Thursday 25 May 1911 |
Time: | |
Type: | ASL Valkyrie Type A |
Owner/operator: | Valkyrie School |
Registration: | 7 |
MSN: | 7 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hendon Aerodrome, Hendon, Middlesex -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Hendon Aerodrome, Hendon, Middlesex |
Destination airport: | Hendon Aerodrome, Hendon, Middlesex |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:25.5.1911 ASL Valkyrie Type A No. 7, Valkyrie School: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when stalled attempting gliding descent and dived in from approximately 100 feet (30 metres), at Hendon Aerodrome, Hendon, Middlesex. Pilot - Bernard Greenwood Benson (aged 20) - was killed. This accident it believed to be the first fatal aircraft accident at Hendon. According to the Wikipedia entry for this aircraft type:
"Although they were considered tricky to fly, by contemporary standards the Valkyrie monoplane was a successful design. Most of the aircraft produced were used for training and exhibition purposes, principally at the ASL's flight school at Hendon. On 25 May 1911 a six-week-old Valkyrie from the Valkyrie school crashed killing the student pilot Bernard Benson, only the third Briton to be killed in an aircraft accident."
Sources:
1.
http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1916.htm 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASL_Valkyrie#Operational_history 3. "Airman Killed at Hendon - Pupil's Fatal Flight". News. The Times (39595). London. 25 May 1911. col C, p. 9.
4. Flight magazine 5 June 1911 page 480 at
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1911/1911%20-%200478.html 5.
http://www.sbap.be/museum/hendon/hendon.htm 6. Grace, Terry and Wilson, Maggie; "Airy Somethings ; The Extraordinary life of the Pioneer Aviator Horatio Barber" Amazon, 2019.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Nov-2018 22:21 |
Dr.John Smith |
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18-Jan-2020 15:11 |
Anon. |
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