parachutes. 26 February Capt. Karl G. E. Gimmler is killed when his Boeing P-26A Peashooter, 33–93, of the 27th Pursuit Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group, Selfridge Field, Michigan, stalls and spins into the ground at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. Airframe dropped from records at Selfridge in June 1936. Some sources also list this accident as occurring 20 February 1936. 2 March During spin testing, the Heinkel He 112 V2 prototype, D-IHGE, unarmed, like the V1, and powered by a 640 hp Jumo 210 engine, crashes this date. It had achieved a maximum speed of 480 km/298.3 mph. Pilot Gerhard Nitschke, unable to recover from the spin, successfully bails out. 8 March Lt. Robert K. Giovannoli is KWF when the starboard wing detaches from Boeing P-26 Peashooter, 32-414, c/n 1680, of the Materiel Division, Wright Field, Ohio, while "coming out of a glide 500 feet over Logan Field, Baltimore. Giovannoli was awarded a medal recently for his heroism last October in helping to rescue two men from a burning army bomber which had crashed at Dayton, O. His home was in Lexington, Ky." He had been key in pulling Leslie Tower and Ployer Peter Hill from the cockpit of the burning Boeing 299 prototype after it crashed on takeoff on 30 October 1935. Giovannoli received the Soldier's Medal posthumously as he died before the President could make the award. 23 March Arado Ar 65, Werk Nr. 111, D-2912 / D-IVYZ, of III/JG, crashes during aerobatics at too low altitude – left wing failed. Pilot killed. 30 March Sole Pitcairn YG-2 gyrocopter, (Pitcairn PA-33), 35–270, undergoing tests by NACA as NACA 88, crashes near the Back River, Virginia, two miles SE of Langley Field, and burns. Pilot William H. McAvoy and engineer John Wheatley bail out after rotor structural failure. 5 April All five crew perish when Keystone B-6A, 32-173, of the 20th Bomb Squadron, Langley Field, Virginia, off-course at night in a storm, strikes the ridge of Blue Mountain seven miles NE of Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania. "The crash would have been avoided if the plane had been 250 feet higher. A state highway patrolman who saw it said it appeared to be in trouble as it approached the mountain ridge. It tore a wide path through the heavy timber as it struck, then dashed nose first into a steep cliff, where the mountain falls sharply away in a 75-foot drop. Near-by residents heard it,