construction. All remaining VB 10s (including the first prototype) were scrapped." 18 September An RAF de Havilland Mosquito crashed during an air show at RAF Manston, killing both crew and ten spectators. 19 September An RCAF de Havilland Vampire crashed into a hillside in what is now the Ganaraska Forest near Kendal, Ontario. Flight Lieutenant Leslie Banner was killed while returning to Trenton, Ontario, from Niagara Falls, New York. Missing his turn at Newcastle due to heavy clouds, he went off course and crashed on the side of Lookout Hill. 20 September First prototype USAF North American XB-45 Tornado 45-59479, in a dive test at Muroc Air Force Base in California, to test design load factor, experienced an engine explosion which tore off cowling panels that sheared several feet from the horizontal stabilizer. The aircraft pitched up, and both wings tore off under a negative g-force. The crew had no ejection seats, and George Krebs and Nick Piccard were killed. 6 October An engine fire caused the crash in Waycross, Georgia of Boeing B-29-100-BW Superfortress 45-21866 of the 3150th Electronics Squadron, United States Air Force, shortly after takeoff from Robins Air Force Base. Nine of the 13 men aboard were killed, including three RCA engineers; four parachuted to safety. 18 October USAF Douglas C-54D-10-DC Skymaster 42-72688 (c/n 10793), participating in the Berlin Airlift, crashed near Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany. Three crew were killed: Capt. James A. Vaughn, 1st Lt. Eugene Erickson and Sgt. Richard Winter. 19 October Royal Navy Grumman Avenger III KE443 (FD 068) of 703 Squadron, shore-based at Ford, Sussex, nosed over on landing aboard . The airframe was not repaired and ended up on the fire dump at Gosport, Hampshire, surviving until at least mid-1950. 22 October On the fifth flight of second prototype McDonnell XF-85 Goblin parasite fighter 45–524, McDonnell test pilot Edwin F. Schoch unhooked from the trapeze on Boeing EB-29B Superfortress 44-84111 (named "Monstro) and retracted the small fighter's nose hook in flight for the first time. When he extended it to reconnect with the mother ship, buffeting over the open nose hook well (previously flown taped closed) made the Goblin too unstable for reconnection. The hook was broken in the attempts, and Schoch belly-landed on the dry lake at Muroc Air Force Base for the second time. This was the last flight of the second prototype. 3 November Boeing RB-29A Superfortress 44-61999