Light Aircraft lands on Devon beach
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I was walking there with the dogs & the Mrs only a few weeks back. Must have been a surreal moment or two.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/06/pilot-...
What is aircraft, looks like a replica Spad or something?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/06/pilot-...
What is aircraft, looks like a replica Spad or something?
Smiler. said:
I was walking there with the dogs & the Mrs only a few weeks back. Must have been a surreal moment or two.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/06/pilot-...
What is aircraft, looks like a replica Spad or something?
Pilot has a rare name so it's a good bet this is him:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/06/pilot-...
What is aircraft, looks like a replica Spad or something?
https://www.ataviation.uk/our-team/
which makes the plane a 1932 Morane Saulnier. The for sale ad has been taken down (understandably) but it's in the google cache.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=ca...
Good landing (any one you can walk away from and all that), but with people and animals on the beach I wonder whether ditching in the sea would have been more appropriate?
davepoth said:
Good landing (any one you can walk away from and all that), but with people and animals on the beach I wonder whether ditching in the sea would have been more appropriate?
Personally I wouldn't want to ditch something with a fixed u/c like that. You run the risk of it 'digging in' and flipping the a/c upside down.Ginetta G15 Girl said:
Personally I wouldn't want to ditch something with a fixed u/c like that. You run the risk of it 'digging in' and flipping the a/c upside down.
Herne bay incident 2016.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOCMy3wdENg
Dr Jekyll said:
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
Personally I wouldn't want to ditch something with a fixed u/c like that. You run the risk of it 'digging in' and flipping the a/c upside down.
Herne bay incident 2016.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOCMy3wdENg
There werent many hours on the engine either
Edited by saaby93 on Sunday 6th May 20:06
The Telegraph article says its " A 1930s aircraft" , which is correct. It then says it's a World War 1 era aircraft. Don't they read what they write?
The Morane 320 was an early 1930s parasol monoplane fighter. The nearest one of these got to World War 1 is when a Morane such as this played the part of an experimental monoplane fighter in the World War 1 film, "The Blue Max".
There are a few still airworthy.
The Morane 320 was an early 1930s parasol monoplane fighter. The nearest one of these got to World War 1 is when a Morane such as this played the part of an experimental monoplane fighter in the World War 1 film, "The Blue Max".
There are a few still airworthy.
davepoth said:
Pilot has a rare name so it's a good bet this is him:
https://www.ataviation.uk/our-team/
which makes the plane a 1932 Morane Saulnier. The for sale ad has been taken down (understandably) but it's in the google cache.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=ca...
Good landing (any one you can walk away from and all that), but with people and animals on the beach I wonder whether ditching in the sea would have been more appropriate?
Excellent sleuthing https://www.ataviation.uk/our-team/
which makes the plane a 1932 Morane Saulnier. The for sale ad has been taken down (understandably) but it's in the google cache.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=ca...
Good landing (any one you can walk away from and all that), but with people and animals on the beach I wonder whether ditching in the sea would have been more appropriate?
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