Squadron Leader M. J, Adam, who recently set up a world's ahoge record, was one of the two RAF. officers killed on Sept. 12 when a bomber crashed at Farnborough, Hampshire, and caught firë. A civi-Wan wireless operator in the "plane died late last night from His injuries The "plane was piloted by Flight Lieutenant R. Monks, states the "Manchester Guardian.
Both he and Squadron Leader Adam were attached to the Experimental Squadron of the Royal Aircraft. Establishment at Farnborough. The third occupant of the aircraft was Mr. Benjamin Thomas Edwin ind, a civilian wireless operator employed at the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
The bomber had just taken off when it crashed among trees at the edge of the flying ground Monks is thought to have been killed outright and Adam died on tHe way to hospital, Squadron Leader Adam was awarded the Air Force Cross it the birthday honours in June. It was June, 1937, that He regained the world's. altitude record for Great Bri-lain. He reached a height of 53,937 feet—over ten miles—exceeding the Itslian record by 2575 feet, an achievement which brought the congratulations of the King and the high praise of the Air Ministry. Born at St. Andrews in November, 1808, Adam entered the Royal Air Force in August, 1929, and qualified as a pilot in 1930. In July, 1937—about a fortnight after his record fight—he married in. London Mrs.
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