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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Up & Over | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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