The Short Stirling EH988 ran on four engines like many of the aircraft of the time. The nearest landing strip was at RAF Hucknall , and captain Cockbain headed toward it.

It was on the night of December 17, 1942, when a British Short Stirling was getting close to home after a bombing mission. The Dutch coast was a friendly sign that the crew would soon make it back ...

News; UK News; World War 2; Haunting wreck of shot-down plane which left 8 dead washes up on beach The downed plane has been identified as a Short Stirling MK1 and is thought to be the aircraft ...

The Short Stirling was the RAF’s first four-engine heavy bomber during World War II, according to Stangvik, who said that the planes encountered problems flying above 15,000 feet when fully loaded.

Recovery experts have identified a Second World War bomber lying on the bottom of the Markermeer near Amsterdam, resolving a 12-year-long mystery. Defence ministry specialists are working with a ...

The Stirling Aircraft Project Charity based near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire is working on the Short Stirling, which was one of the RAF's first four-engine bombers.

This is the story of a short Stirling aircraft that crashed, I think probably during the winter, in 1944 at Grovesend, near Thornbury, up where the traffic lights on the main A.38 road are now.

Short Stirling Air Disaster: Five people who died in aircraft tragedy 'will never be forgotten' An unremarkable field off the A608 in Annesley is the site of a tragic and relatively unknown piece ...

This is the story of a short Stirling aircraft that crashed, I think probably during the winter, in 1944 at Grovesend, near Thornbury, up where the traffic lights on the main A.38 road are now.