![OnDisasters's tweet photo. The first F-14 fatality
June 30 1972: US Navy prototype F-14 [157989] crashes off Virginia (US). Sole crew member dies, William "Bill" Miller, Grumman´s chief test pilot. Practicing for an airshow, a jet hit the water at high speed. Cause unestablished, poor visibility due to fog was likely a factor.
More info here by ASN
Crashed into the Chesapeake Bay, 4-1/2 miles southeast of NATC while preparing for an airshow at Patuxent, Maryland. The accident killed Grumman´s top test pilot, William H. (Bill) Miller, who, a year and a half earlier, survived the crash of the first F-14 built during its second flight.
Miller was flying alone and had already completed a number of high-speed maneuvers when he was seen to be passing low over the water.
Witnesses in a fishing boat nearby reported seeing the F-14 being pulled up suddenly, but too late to avoid the tail hitting the surface. The aircraft struck the water at about 350 knots and exploded. It was thought that Miller may have been distracted by something in the cockpit.
It was a very hazy, smoggy day, with no horizon, and there was nobody in the rear cockpit to warn him of the danger. The weather conditions may have caused the pilot to lose his visual reference to the horizon, and he flew the jet right into the water.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMGADGxXAAA839u.jpg)
![OnDisasters's tweet photo. The first F-14 fatality
June 30 1972: US Navy prototype F-14 [157989] crashes off Virginia (US). Sole crew member dies, William "Bill" Miller, Grumman´s chief test pilot. Practicing for an airshow, a jet hit the water at high speed. Cause unestablished, poor visibility due to fog was likely a factor.
More info here by ASN
Crashed into the Chesapeake Bay, 4-1/2 miles southeast of NATC while preparing for an airshow at Patuxent, Maryland. The accident killed Grumman´s top test pilot, William H. (Bill) Miller, who, a year and a half earlier, survived the crash of the first F-14 built during its second flight.
Miller was flying alone and had already completed a number of high-speed maneuvers when he was seen to be passing low over the water.
Witnesses in a fishing boat nearby reported seeing the F-14 being pulled up suddenly, but too late to avoid the tail hitting the surface. The aircraft struck the water at about 350 knots and exploded. It was thought that Miller may have been distracted by something in the cockpit.
It was a very hazy, smoggy day, with no horizon, and there was nobody in the rear cockpit to warn him of the danger. The weather conditions may have caused the pilot to lose his visual reference to the horizon, and he flew the jet right into the water.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMGAC9MWUAAIBEu.jpg)
![OnDisasters's tweet photo. The first F-14 fatality
June 30 1972: US Navy prototype F-14 [157989] crashes off Virginia (US). Sole crew member dies, William "Bill" Miller, Grumman´s chief test pilot. Practicing for an airshow, a jet hit the water at high speed. Cause unestablished, poor visibility due to fog was likely a factor.
More info here by ASN
Crashed into the Chesapeake Bay, 4-1/2 miles southeast of NATC while preparing for an airshow at Patuxent, Maryland. The accident killed Grumman´s top test pilot, William H. (Bill) Miller, who, a year and a half earlier, survived the crash of the first F-14 built during its second flight.
Miller was flying alone and had already completed a number of high-speed maneuvers when he was seen to be passing low over the water.
Witnesses in a fishing boat nearby reported seeing the F-14 being pulled up suddenly, but too late to avoid the tail hitting the surface. The aircraft struck the water at about 350 knots and exploded. It was thought that Miller may have been distracted by something in the cockpit.
It was a very hazy, smoggy day, with no horizon, and there was nobody in the rear cockpit to warn him of the danger. The weather conditions may have caused the pilot to lose his visual reference to the horizon, and he flew the jet right into the water.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMGAC0VXUAAnHj4.jpg)
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The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission became one of the costliest daylight bombing raids of the war, highlighting both the courage of U.S. bomber crews and the heavy price of the strategic air campaign over Europe.
Apache pilot in action
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PFC Floyd Rogers with the 38th Infantry Regiment, US 2nd Infantry Division, with his BAR in Normandy - June 29, 1944
He would be Killed in Action thirteen days later on July 12, 1944 near Hill 192 outside of Saint-Lô, he was 24 years old
Born on November 29, 1919 to Joseph & Anna Belle Rodgers in Rising Star Texas, Floyd Lafayette Rogers enlisted in the Army on January 15, 1941, his father Joseph was a WW1 Veteran.
At the time of this picture, Rodgers was credited with 27 enemy kills with his BAR, he was awarded the Silver Star on July 11, 1944, the day before he was Killed in Action.
His remains were brought back after the war and PFC Floyd Rogers is buried at Rising Star Cemetery in Rising Star, Texas.
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The first F-14 fatality
June 30 1972: US Navy prototype F-14 [157989] crashes off Virginia (US). Sole crew member dies, William "Bill" Miller, Grumman´s chief test pilot. Practicing for an airshow, a jet hit the water at high speed. Cause unestablished, poor visibility due to fog was likely a factor.
More info here by ASN
Crashed into the Chesapeake Bay, 4-1/2 miles southeast of NATC while preparing for an airshow at Patuxent, Maryland. The accident killed Grumman´s top test pilot, William H. (Bill) Miller, who, a year and a half earlier, survived the crash of the first F-14 built during its second flight.
Miller was flying alone and had already completed a number of high-speed maneuvers when he was seen to be passing low over the water.
Witnesses in a fishing boat nearby reported seeing the F-14 being pulled up suddenly, but too late to avoid the tail hitting the surface. The aircraft struck the water at about 350 knots and exploded. It was thought that Miller may have been distracted by something in the cockpit.
It was a very hazy, smoggy day, with no horizon, and there was nobody in the rear cockpit to warn him of the danger. The weather conditions may have caused the pilot to lose his visual reference to the horizon, and he flew the jet right into the water.
![OnDisasters's tweet photo. The first F-14 fatality
June 30 1972: US Navy prototype F-14 [157989] crashes off Virginia (US). Sole crew member dies, William "Bill" Miller, Grumman´s chief test pilot. Practicing for an airshow, a jet hit the water at high speed. Cause unestablished, poor visibility due to fog was likely a factor.
More info here by ASN
Crashed into the Chesapeake Bay, 4-1/2 miles southeast of NATC while preparing for an airshow at Patuxent, Maryland. The accident killed Grumman´s top test pilot, William H. (Bill) Miller, who, a year and a half earlier, survived the crash of the first F-14 built during its second flight.
Miller was flying alone and had already completed a number of high-speed maneuvers when he was seen to be passing low over the water.
Witnesses in a fishing boat nearby reported seeing the F-14 being pulled up suddenly, but too late to avoid the tail hitting the surface. The aircraft struck the water at about 350 knots and exploded. It was thought that Miller may have been distracted by something in the cockpit.
It was a very hazy, smoggy day, with no horizon, and there was nobody in the rear cockpit to warn him of the danger. The weather conditions may have caused the pilot to lose his visual reference to the horizon, and he flew the jet right into the water.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMGADHLXoAAG-4L.jpg)
@doc_1029 Good luck!
@xAviation Man that is awesome to see and hear!
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MD-11 pushed to the limits in stall test!
On April 24, 1952, a Nike missile successfully intercepted and completely destroyed in mid-air a remotely controlled QB-17 bomber high over White Sands. WSMR IGOR tracking telescope operator Joe Marlin photographed the intercept and won the 1955 Ernie Pyle Award for outstanding still photography in support of national security.🤘😎
@doc_1029 Looks good!
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