Timing is everything

mckitterick:

mckitterick:

Timing is everything

this famous photo was featured as a center spread in the British Daily Mirror newspaper on Oct 9, 1962

photographer Jim Meads was with his two children as the then-experimental Mach-2 Lightning F1 fighter jet roared in to land at De Havilland Airfield near their home

a fuel leak caused catastrophic failure and the plane flipped. pilot George Aird ejected at the last moment, hit a greenhouse, and fell through the roof, breaking both legs as he landed un...