Walter Holden, The Ground Tech Who Accidentally Took Off In A Royal Air Force Fighter Jet

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Today in 1966, a ground technician in the UK was doing some ground testing of an English Electric Lightning fighter jet… when suddenly the test was no longer on the ground. Plus: today is the start of The Great Montreal Poutine Fest. How a RAF Ground Engineer Accidentally Took Off in a Fighter Jet (Interesting Engineering)The Great Montréal PoutineFest (Tourisme Montreal)Help this show fly every day as a backer on Patreon

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