Word: stovelid
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...last anyone saw of this adventure was the strange machine's magnificent trajectory into the dusk-as if a match had been swept across a hot stovelid. That same evening a plane exploded above the Thames estuary with such violence that neither pilot nor much of the wreckage was found. But R.A.F. flyers concluded that scraps of wreckage they found had once belonged to the DH-108. It was possible that Captain De Havilland had made his new record (unofficially) ; and that for one fearful moment, he had experienced more of the new problems of aeronautics than is known...
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