Spitfire crash Biggin Hill
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ecsrobin said:
That's odd or is it an add blocker?
I use Disconnect it blocks it. It's the only pic hosting/links that it blocks, I think because of Twitter tracking.Took my toddler up there to watch the planes today. Chose the wrong day.
The spitfire took off over us sounding very rough, pilot did a very tight low level turn to starboard to try to put down within the airfield.
He was lucky he used 29 to depart as not sure he'd have cleared the trees near the old RAF base if he was on 21.
The spitfire took off over us sounding very rough, pilot did a very tight low level turn to starboard to try to put down within the airfield.
He was lucky he used 29 to depart as not sure he'd have cleared the trees near the old RAF base if he was on 21.
Took my toddler up there to watch the planes today. Chose the wrong day.
The spitfire took off over us sounding very rough, pilot did a very tight low level turn to starboard to try to put down within the airfield.
He was lucky he used 29 to depart as not sure he'd have cleared the trees near the old RAF base if he was on 21.
The spitfire took off over us sounding very rough, pilot did a very tight low level turn to starboard to try to put down within the airfield.
He was lucky he used 29 to depart as not sure he'd have cleared the trees near the old RAF base if he was on 21.
[quote=oyster]Took my toddler up there to watch the planes today. Chose the wrong day.
The spitfire took off over us sounding very rough, pilot did a very tight low level turn to starboard to try to put down within the airfield.
He was lucky he used 29 to depart as not sure he'd have cleared the trees near the old RAF base if he was on 21.[/quoten
The strongest rule when an engine failure on take off occurs, is do not try to turn back to the airfield. but to choose a suitable landing place as near to straight ahead as possible
Any idea what height the pilot managed to achieve? Given the value of the aircraft, and the possibility that the engine was still producing `some' power, could this be why the pilot tried to
turn back?
Does anyone have any details of the height the pilot was able to achieve?
The spitfire took off over us sounding very rough, pilot did a very tight low level turn to starboard to try to put down within the airfield.
He was lucky he used 29 to depart as not sure he'd have cleared the trees near the old RAF base if he was on 21.[/quoten
The strongest rule when an engine failure on take off occurs, is do not try to turn back to the airfield. but to choose a suitable landing place as near to straight ahead as possible
Any idea what height the pilot managed to achieve? Given the value of the aircraft, and the possibility that the engine was still producing `some' power, could this be why the pilot tried to
turn back?
Does anyone have any details of the height the pilot was able to achieve?
Pan Pan Pan said:
Cfnteabag said:
What on earth is going on with all the planes this weekend!
Yup. 3 planes down in a single weekend is thankfully unusual and definitely not good.During the summer months when air displays are on these bad weekends sometimes happen. I remember one year in the 1990s we had about four warbirds lost in separate accidents.
Also, lots of private pilots will be about and about on the long sunny summer days so we do tend top get an increase in light aircraft accidents at this time of year.
MOST weekends we have crashes and accidents involving light aircraft. The vast bulk of them are not newsworthy enough to get reported so nobody notices - unless they are followers of the general aviation scene.
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