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Less happy was a second Convair-Navy demonstration. As observers watched, Test Pilot Charles E. Richbourg taxied the experimental XF2-YI Sea Dart (TIME, Feb. 16, 1953) across San Diego Bay on its retractable "hydro-skis." The jet seaplane took off, circled the bay, screamed in for a 400-m.p.h. pass at the shore. Suddenly, 300 ft. above the water, the Sea Dart fell apart in a gush of flame and a shower of metal fragments. Pilot Richbourg lived only two minutes after rescuers pulled him from...
BOSTON (N. L.)HARVARD Thomas 2b. c.f. Burns Richbourg r.f. r.f. Jones Moore 3b, 3b. Zarakov J. Smith c.f. l.f. Lord Brown l.f. 1b. Tobin Fournier 1b. 2b. Ullman Bancroft s.s. c. Chauncey Taylor c. s.s. Sullivan Edwards p. p. Cutts or Booth Game called at 3 o'clock. Umpires, Wilson and Dineen...
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