Risk: The Story Behind an Unbelievable Photograph

From Vintage Everyday:

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Test
pilot George Aird - flying a English Electric Lightning F1 - ejected
from his English Electric

 Lightning F1 aircraft at a fantastically low
altitude in Hatfield, Hertfordshire 13th September 1962.

In 1962 in Hertfordshire, England, a tractor driver working on a tomato
farm heard a funny noise behind him, and turned round to look. A