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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...
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    Belgrade to Manchester was beyond the range of the "Elizabethan"-class Airspeed Ambassador. After refuelling, pilots James Thain and Kenneth Rayment twice abandoned...
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  • Airways (BEA). On 6 February 1958, Thain was pilot in command of an Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador (Lord Burghley, G-ALZU) flying out of Munich. The aircraft was...
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    Show). On 6 February 1958 an Airspeed AS 57 Ambassador charter plane crashed soon after take-off. The accident – known as the Munich air disaster – cost...
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  • its piston-engined airliners – such as the Avro York, the Bristol 170 Freighter and the Airspeed AS 57 Ambassador – which had reached or were nearing...
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  • Airspeed AS-57 Ambassador 2 G-ALZS (pre-accident photo)". Archived from the original on 14 February 2006. Retrieved 2 May 2009. "Autair Airspeed AS-57...
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    Network. Retrieved on 19 January 2013. "ASN Aircraft accident Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2 G-ALZU Munich Riem, Germany". Archived from the original on...
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  • Föstudagsæfing færist til kl.19:00". Íþróttafélagið Þór. "3 Students Killed As Bus Overturns In Rain on Rte. 17". The New York Times. 4 January 1973. Retrieved...
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    proposed by Airspeed Limited a British aircraft manufacturer from 1931 to 1951. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Airspeed aircraft. "Airspeed Type Designations"...
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  • break the world airspeed record. In January 1943 he joined Airspeed Ltd. as technical director and was responsible for the Airspeed Ambassador (BEA Elizabethan)...
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    Airspeed Limited was established in 1931 to build aeroplanes in York, England, by A. H. Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway (the aeronautical engineer and novelist...
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    6845, an Airspeed Ambassador registration G-AMAD of BKS Air Transport crashed at Heathrow Airport, damaging two parked Trident airliners as it cartwheeled...
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  • MkI Airspeed AS.54 - Specification TX.3/43 Airspeed AS.55 Airspeed AS.56 - fighter design tendered to F.6/42 but turned down Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador Airspeed...
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    European Airways Flight 609 killed 23 of the 44 people on board an Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador plane, including seven players on the defending English soccer...
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    radar, as did the twelfth developmental Su-27M. The Su-37's ability to maintain a high angle of attack while flying at close to zero airspeed attracted...
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  • maneuver will be cancelled from their shows, dive recovery rules with airspeed limitations will be instituted, performances will be made at a higher altitude...
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    Thomas-Morse Scout while filming Hell's Angels, one while setting the airspeed record in the Hughes Racer, one at Lake Mead in 1943, and the near-fatal...
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    aircraft. More confusion arose as the hailed speed was the ground speed, while the pilot's instruments displayed airspeed, a 50-knot (93 km/h; 58 mph) difference...
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  • completely and its No. 1 (outer left) propeller was damaged severely. Airspeed and altitude data were lost, the aircraft depressurized, and an antenna...
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    II is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. Airspeed Ambassador (planned only) Avro Lincoln (test bed only) Avro Shackleton (planned...
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  • Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air...
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    into two types, the Type IIA using piston power, which led to the Airspeed Ambassador, and the turboprop-powered Type IIB, which Vickers was selected to...
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  • 6 – In the Munich air disaster, a British European Airways Airspeed Ambassador operating as Flight 609 crashed while attempting a take off in a snowstorm...
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    plane's elevators, was damaged or out. KAL 007's airspeed and acceleration rate both began to decrease as the plane began to climb. At twenty seconds after...
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  • Type Image Identity Markings/notes Airco DH.9 D5649 Airspeed Oxford I V3388 Auster AOP.9 XP281 Stored Avro Anson I N4877 MK-V Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck...
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    Bureau of Safety Regulation initially issued an edict to restrict maximum airspeed and instrument flight, which was later replaced by a safety bulletin requiring...
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    for the second year in succession. The team's chartered plane, an Airspeed Ambassador owned by British European Airways, left Belgrade on 6 February and...
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    airspeed and direction would be noted and then relayed to the Central Office for South Vietnam, North Vietnam's southern headquarters. Using airspeed...
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    axes based on attitude, airspeed, and angle of attack (AOA)/g; these prevent control surfaces from inducing instability such as slips or skids, or a high...
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  • designs specified by the Brabazon Committee (in particular, the Airspeed Ambassador and Armstrong Whitworth Apollo) could be developed. To speed development...
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