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bomb overboard to maintain altitude. They ascended to 3700 feet, were well balanced again and tried to make radio contact. The last message that was received was at 1:23am, being an incomplete message: "Pulham of C.26...". At around 1:30am they reached the Dutch coast. They failed to land, due to failure of one of the top flaps; which they got fixed later. Due to the fog and darkness, they couldn't see the ground. When the anchor caught for the 2nd time on something at 3:15 at
185:. On 11 November 1915, he made his first flight in an airship, the SS14. After a long training he was transferred to Scotland in June 1916, where flew for the first time on a Coastal Class airship. He first flew in the C.5 and later the year in the C.7. In August 1916 Kilburn flew his first flight as commander and became a Coastal Class pilot the same month. In January 1917 he was stationed at Kingsnorth. In June 1917 he was stationed at
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during their return, at around 5:00pm, the rear engine stopped working for an unknown cause. After a few attempts to restart the engine, they attempted to land, but this failed because they could not release enough gas to descend sufficiently. Pulham Base received at around 5:15 pm the message of the
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British coast. The commander of the C.27, flight lieutenant J.F. Dixon DFC, was also a very good friend of Kilburn. The C.26 couldn't find the airship, unaware that it was shot down by a German plane. Due to
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where it came down and pulled a telephone pole with 200 meters of electricity cables. The airship destroyed a chimney and ended up on a bakery at "Wakkerendijk 3". The balloon body caught on the back of the house and rose vertically on the roof. The gondola had hit the wall and was bent in half.
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Daimler-branded 12-cylinder engines and could stay in the air for 22 hours. The balloon of the airship was about 60 meters long. The airship had a crew of five in a gondola below the balloon. After drifting over the North Sea due to an engine failure, the airship
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On the ground items were found that had fallen out of the gondola. The Eemnes historial society still has binoculars of the airship. Eemland
Archive has a piece of the balloon. In 2019 a special exhibition was held in Eemnes about the C.26 airship by the Eemnes historial society.
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where he became commander of the C.26 and sometimes flew the C.27. In July 1917 he was promoted to flight lieutenant. On 17 July 1917 he made a parachute jump out of the C.26.
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183:midshipman
177:Commander
123:1917-12-14
108:1916-11-21
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320:Rotterdam
295:Aftermath
243:Lowestoft
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91:202 hours
597:NS class
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88:Flights
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187:Pulham
166:Eemnes
150:was a
136:Eemnes
79:Serial
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223:Fate
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