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Historic Spitfire flypast planned to celebrate 100-year life of WW2 hero pilot of Perth dailyrecord.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyrecord.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Perth WW2 veteran held captive in The Great Escape POW camp has RAF headquarters named after him dailyrecord.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyrecord.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Scotland s aviation history celebrated through new RAF website and trail LARGE crowds gathered as an aeronaut ascended in a hydrogen balloon from the garden of George Heriot’s School in Edinburgh on October 5, 1785. Italian Vincenzo Lunardi flew over the Firth of Forth and landed at Coaltown of Callange in the Parish of Ceres, in Fife, and had travelled 46 miles. A commemorative plaque marks the site to this day. In a report from the time by Scots Magazine, it said: “The beauty and grandeur of the spectacle could only be exceeded by the cool, intrepid manner in which the adventurer conducted himself; and indeed he seemed infinitely more at ease than the greater part of his spectators.” ....
Submitting. Ernie Holmes picture: supplied Shortly after the fatal crash, a farmer’s daughter, Netje van der Heijden, found the brave pilot hiding. She took him to her parents home where her father, Fons, had a number of escapees in hiding. At immense risk to themselves, the family kept Mr Holmes sheltered until plans were confirmed to smuggle him to Spain. But when he was reunited with his navigator on a carefully planned escape route, the pair were betrayed in Antwerp and subsequently taken to the prisoner of war camp StalagLuft III. Mr Holmes spent the remainder of the war there before embarking on the infamous “Long March” to Lübeck from where he was repatriated. ....