Airspeed Ambassador
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The Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador is a British twin piston-engined airliner that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Airspeed Ltd. It was one of the first postwar airliners to b
Dan-Air Ambassador at Bristol Airport in 1965
Napier's Eland engine test-bed Ambassador G-ALFR at Farnborough SBAC Show 1955
Passengers board a British European Airways G-AMAH Airspeed Ambassador aircraft in 1954.
BKS Air Transport Ambassador G-AMAD in 1965
Munich air disaster
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The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. The aircraft was
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…Queen and Prince Philip when travelling to Europe in the early 1950s. 6 February 1958: G-ALZU, Lord Burghley, also of BEA, in what became known as the Munich air disaster, crashed on takeoff after a refuelling stop at Munich while operating a charter flight from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to Manchester, England. This crash…
The burning wreckage of the aircraft
G-ALZU, the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured in 1955
A plaque at Old Trafford in memory of the Munich air disaster
The Munich Clock, on the southeast corner of Old Trafford