Start of Major Woods Unlucky Flight - Receiving a blessing
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Start of Major Woods Unlucky Flight - Receiving a blessing
Major J C P Wood and Captain C C Wyllie met with misfortune during their preliminary flight from Eastchurch to Limerick, whence they intended to cross the Atlantic from west to east. The engine stopped, due to an air-lock in the fuel pipe twelve miles out over the Irish Sea. The turned and descended to Church Bay, Anglesey where the pilots were rescued and the aircraft later salvaged. This photograph shows the two pilots and their aircraft being blessed by a priest prior to departure. Date: 1919
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