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 ...

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.

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.

Seventy-seven years after it plunged into the waters of the Markermeer, a wartime bomber is giving up its secrets fragment by fragment. The BK716 Short Stirling plane was shot down on March 29, 1943, ...

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 ...

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.