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01/03/2026

62 years ago. 3 January 1964, an USAF RB-57 "Canberra" flying out of WPAFB, suffered a catastrophic failure and began to come apart midair. The pilot was able to eject safely. Portions of the wings were found in a field near Factory and Trebein Roads. Engine structure landed in a field on Shakertown Road. The main fuselage and tail section landed in an open parking area behind Beavercreek High School. Miraciously, even though school was in session no one was injured. Only damage reported at the school was a broken window in the school and a damaged windshield on a parked automobile.

After the accident, students, faculty and staff were marshalled into the lawn in front of the school to await busses and other transportation to arrive. The newspaper article stated that the school jazz band played music during the wait.

The fuselage and other pieces of the plane were removed over the weekend from the parking lot and school was reopened 2 days later, on Monday morning

Can you imagine if this happened today? Dayton Xenia Road would be gridlocked with SUVs rushing to the school and lawyers ready to file law suits.

11/22/2025

Service to his Nation and his brothers to the very end.

Marine Corps combat veteran Steven M. Lipscomb lost his life while looking after the safety of his crew at the Rolling Thunder Mine in Nicholas County, W.Va. 

11/22/2025

Good morning America

The United States Flag flies at full staff

11/20/2025

11/20/2025

Another look at B-52H 61-0007 as she was taxing for her departure from Tucson after being in storage, Feb. 2015.

01/03/2025

61 years ago. 3 January 1964, an USAF RB-57 "Canberra" flying out of WPAFB, suffered a catastrophic failure and began to come apart midair. The pilot was able to eject safely. Portions of the wings were found in a field near Factory and Trebein Roads. Engine structure landed in a field on Shakertown Road. The main fuselage and tail section landed in an open parking area behind Beavercreek High School. Miraciously, even though school was in session no one was injured. Only damage reported at the school was a broken window in the school and a damaged windshield on a parked automobile.

After the accident, students, faculty and staff were marshalled into the lawn in front of the school to await busses and other transportation to arrive. The newspaper article stated that the school jazz band played music during the wait.

The fuselage and other pieces of the plane were removed over the weekend from the parking lot and school was reopened 2 days later, on Monday morning

Can you imagine if this happened today? Dayton Xenia Road would be gridlocked with SUVs rushing to the school and lawyers ready to file law suits.

08/20/2024

20 Aug 1946, 78 years ago.

An unpainted Messerschmitt 262 (Wk.Nr 111711) 'surrendered' by Luftwaffe test pilot and flight instructor Hans Fay on the 30 March 1945

At about 1345 hours on March 30, a strange aircraft with wheels down circled Rhein/Main airfield, near the city of Frankfurt am Main,
Occupying American troops on the field below, tried anxiously to identify it. The pilot carefully picked the only available field strip among the bomb craters, brought his ship in for a perfect landing, and stepped out of the cockpit.
He was Hans Fay, veteran Messerschmitt test pilot and technical inspector, with approximately 11,000 starts (80 in jet planes) to his credit. Fay had waited a long time for an opportunity which came as the result of two factors: first, the town of his parents, near Lachen-Speyerdorf, was at last in American hands, and second, 22 new jet planes which were in danger of capture at Schwabisch-Hall were ordered to be flown to Neuburg a/d Donau. When his family would no longer have to fear retaliation for his act, and when orders came on March 30th to proceed from Neuburg to Schwabisch-Hall to help ferry away the endangered jet planes, Fay saw this as his chance.

Fay took off, fourth, and on gaining altitude, retracted his landing gear. But it was faulty, and failed to lock securely into place. For a moment Fay hesitated, then decided to go ahead with his plan. He flew on with landing wheels down at about 300-400 feet.
His efforts to retract the landing gear brought him off course. Also being slowed down considerably by the lowered landing gear, the pilot began to doubt his ability to reach Lachen-Speyerdorf. He quickly chose Rhein/Main as a substitute field, circled, picked a runway among the craters, and landed with a run of only 400/500yds.

After the war, Fay's Me 262 was transported to the USA and was tested at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. It was lost during a test flight, 20 August 1946, when one of its engines caught fire. It crashed south of Xenia, OH, 2 miles east of Lumberton, Ohio and was completely destroyed. The test pilot, Lt. Walter J. McAuley Jr. safely bailed out.

03/21/2024

03/18/2024

18 March 1959, 65 years ago, eight 6th grade Girl Scouts and 2 mothers were killed in an auto-train collision, in Beavercreek, Oh. The accident occurred at Factory Road train crossing. They group was returning from a troop outing to the library in Xenia, Oh,

The victims of the crash were Sharon White, Paulnetta Randall, Ann North, Patricia Lipinski, Cynthia Moorman, Ann Wilvert, Linda Ward, Connie LaPrise, and the Scout leaders, Jeanette Randall and Lucille White.

The scouts were honored and remembered by their high school class of 1965, in 2009 with a memorial placed near the accident site.

01/03/2024

59 years ago, on Friday, 3 January 1964, an USAF RB-57 "Canberra" flying out of WPAFB, suffered a catastrophic failure and began to come apart midair. The pilot was able to eject safely. Portions of the wings were found in a field near Factory and Trebein Roads. Engine structure landed in a field on Shakertown Road. The main fuselage and tail section landed in an open parking area behind Beavercreek High School. Miraciously, even though school was in session no one was injured. Only damage reported at the school was a broken window in the school and a damaged windshield on a parked automobile.

After the accident, students, faculty and staff were marshalled into the lawn in front of the school to await busses and other transportation to arrive. The newspaper article stated that the school jazz band played music during the wait.

The fuselage and other pieces of the plane were removed from the parking lot during the weekend and school was reopened on Monday, 5 January 1964.

Can you imagine if this happened today? Dayton Xenia Road would be gridlocked with SUVs rushing to the school and lawyers ready to file law suits.

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