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CRM? I know it mentioned in that documentary I posted that there was no cockpit voice recorders at that time, but there was a flight data recorder. So it was never totally ascertained as to the cause of the crash. There was an episode of Air Crash Investigation AKA Mayday in some countries...

I remember hearing about the brief career of the four engined Trident (Quadrant?). The crash of BEA Flight 548 didn't help, with the sales of the American mid rangers like the 727 catching up. While in that case there seems to have been some issues with the design of the droops lever, it seems...

I always liked the look of the Hawker Siddely Trident, especially in its early British European Airways scheme. Unfortunately one of these was the subject of what is still Britains worst ever air accident. (Lockerbie doesn't count since it wasn't an accident but terrorism) Some details of...

What you get when you ask the question, how big can we make a fighter. The Tu-128 Fiddler. When it comes to older aircraft, airliners especially. The Junkers 52/3m 'Iron Annie' The Armstrong Whitworth Argosy

On that basis I always liked the look of the Handley Page HP42 Heracles. Not as modern as the FW 200 but still with a distinct look.

There's not many Sikorsky S56's still around. A rather, what seems to be underwhelming exibit from East Fortune.. When you think it came off this.

More from East Fortune Me-163 Komet De Havilland Dragon Rapide Saunders Roe Skeeter De Havilland Sea Venom

You want a MiG-21, what about the Bunnyfighter, built model (not mine) and full story here https://www.themodellingnews.com/2013/04/eduard-148-mig-21mf-bunny-fighter-club.html However, here's some choice shots from East Fortune The Daimler Benz engine from Hess's Me-110 Popular perception...

The Saab Draken

I've got some from the East Fortune museum in Fife, a very modest place but it has a Vulcan, Concorde, and one of the engines from Rudolf Hess's Messerschmitt 110 used on his I'll fated flight.

The Shinden, looks like something from Crimson Skies or Sky Captain. A jet version was considered. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu_J7W

Two projects of the post war British Aircraft industry that never went into production but the Brabazon did land at Prestwick Airport near where I live. The Saunders-Roe Princess The Bristol Brabazon.