From deserts to it’s high Sierras, California is full of aircraft crash sites. Famous sites dot the landscape, like that of the XB-70 Valkyrie and YB-49 Flying Wing, to the resting places of other unfortunate aircraft pulled from the sky.
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Check-Six.com send our thoughts and prayers to those concerned in the mid air collison off of San Diego...
Source: news.yahoo.com
The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching early Friday for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said.
Check-Six.com found this interesting website today... Readers of our webpage can expect some of these names to be the imprimus of future stories...
Source: memwall.usafalibrary.com
In early 2006 a team of four USAFA graduates immersed themselves in the painstaking work of creating an interactive database of information pertaining to graduate combat losses. This multi-year heritage ...
Check-Six.com recalls that, 27 years ago, two politicans disappeared into the panhandle of Alaska. Some have cried "Conspriacy!" over the years, but we at Check-Six did some digging in musty archives to locate previously classified documents that debunk the conspriacy theorists on the disappearance of Senator Hale Boggs in 1972...
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At the time, this was the biggest search in the history of the country, involving 40 military and 20 civilian aircraft. Everything from Coast Guard helicopters and cutters, to Air Force spy aircraft, as well as numerous private aircraft. After thirty-nine days the air search was abandoned.
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recently got an e-mail from a friend of the website, asking about "the General's plane crash" north of Los Angeles... Like many of our stories on the site, we had the scoop (411 of you younger readers)! http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Hun
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When Richard Hunziker graduated from the University of Arizona at Tucson with a bachelor of science degree, he probably would not have guessed that the career he would embark upon would end so long and meritorious. ...
Check-Six.com finished a bit of "housekeeping" on the website - fixing those inconsistent font changes found on some of the newer webpages... Let us know if you come across any!
Check-Six.com saw this bit of news regarding a friend of ours - Pat Macha - down in Southern California (SoCal to most Californians...)
Source: news.yahoo.com
A historian's report that the wreckage of an Air Force jet lost at sea 54 years ago has been found off the Southern California coast brought a surge of emotions for Thomas Theiler, 77, a retired executive and former Air Force pilot.
Check-Six.com remembers an aircraft mishap with eerie parallels to 9/11 - in 1964...
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Crash Site of PAL Flight 773 near San Ramon, CA - Yesterday and Today
Check-Six.com today was reminded of a funny photo that, luckily, didn't result in serious injury...
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but is a picture worth being forwarded a thousand times? Starting in December of 2006, a photo of a small airplane lodged in a large tree, framed by a “Learn ...
Check-Six.com wishes to point out - did you know Edward Kennedy (1932-2009) was nearly killed in a plane crash in 1964 - less than a year after his brother's assassination?
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Born in the Boston suburb of Brookline in 1932, Edward “Ted” Kennedy was the youngest of the nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy - the American ambassador to the United Kingdom. Ted's oldest brother, Joseph P. ...
Check-Six.com would like to take a moment to refer y'all to a local "wreck chasing" website - chalked full of good stories and pictures from several site visits.
Source: norcalwreckchasers.ning.com
Bay Area Wreckchasers forum
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just posted a new story on the website - The Crash of Dick Gray's T-37B in 1982 - http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/NAS
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Richard Eben “Dick” Gray was born March 11, 1945 in Newport News, Virginia. The second son of test pilot and engineer William E. Gray, who was one of the five prime NACA, the predecessor of NASA, test pilots at Langley Field, Virginia, during World War II.
Check-Six.com is nearly ready to post another story on the website...
Check-Six.com What coins will the fine folks at NASA and Winco Intl. think of next?
Source: www.collectspace.com
Each pin is inscribed on its reverse as part of the NASA Official Limited Edition. A descriptive plate is also included. A protective sleeve indicates the Official NASA Limited Edition on front and includes ...
Check-Six.com wonders "What are they going to do will the removed Kapton foil?" I have an idea or two!
Source: www.collectspace.com
Source for space history, space artifacts, and space memorabilia. Learn where astronauts will appear, browse collecting guides, and read original space history-related daily reports.
