Old Warden accident
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Looks like it might be this one -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYiikKW7YAI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYiikKW7YAI
Edited by Eric Mc on Sunday 1st July 14:04
The Daily Mail are now reporting it as a fatal accident 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167205/BR...
Sometimes you just know the news isn't going to be good.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167205/BR...
Sometimes you just know the news isn't going to be good.
Old Warden and the Shuttleworth collection are a fantastic facility for enjoying all the history and pageant of the aircraft and motoring scene, certainly the best I have seen, but I am no expert on either.
Clearly the pilot was a very experienced flyer, an Airline pilot and Gulf War veteran pilot. He died giving others pleasure through his skills doing the thing he obviously excelled at. I would imagine these older aircraft are a real handful and despite the remarkable quality of the maintenance and engineering support, something went wrong. Again I am no flight expert.
Our thoughts must be with his family and the bereaved. Given his service in the gulf, to lose your relative, in such a tragic way, must be very painful.
Clearly the pilot was a very experienced flyer, an Airline pilot and Gulf War veteran pilot. He died giving others pleasure through his skills doing the thing he obviously excelled at. I would imagine these older aircraft are a real handful and despite the remarkable quality of the maintenance and engineering support, something went wrong. Again I am no flight expert.
Our thoughts must be with his family and the bereaved. Given his service in the gulf, to lose your relative, in such a tragic way, must be very painful.
Eric Mc said:
The DM thrives on being innappropriate.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-18664332The Shuttleworth Collection confirmed in a statement on its website that an aircraft had experienced difficulties and crashed.
"Emergency services and the air ambulance were called to the scene and one casualty [was] airlifted to hospital.
"We are not releasing details of the person's identity," the statement said.
The De Havilland DH53 Humming Bird was a very small and low powered aircraft designed by De Havilland to take part in the light aircraft trials that used to be held at Lympne in the 1920s.
In the 1920s the government were keen to get everyone "air minded" - similar in the way they got all enthusiastic in more modern times to get everybody interested in the "information superhighway". To that end, they put up prize money for British manufacturers to come up with designs which would be cheap to produce and cheap to sell. As far as I know none of the designs, including the winning entries, ever entered seriies production - although De Havilland obviously incorporated the lessons they learned in their successful Moth family of light aircraft.
It is sad to see a very rare aircarft and a very experienced pilot meet their end in such a way - but as long as these aircraft are flown, accidents will always be a possibility.
In the 1920s the government were keen to get everyone "air minded" - similar in the way they got all enthusiastic in more modern times to get everybody interested in the "information superhighway". To that end, they put up prize money for British manufacturers to come up with designs which would be cheap to produce and cheap to sell. As far as I know none of the designs, including the winning entries, ever entered seriies production - although De Havilland obviously incorporated the lessons they learned in their successful Moth family of light aircraft.
It is sad to see a very rare aircarft and a very experienced pilot meet their end in such a way - but as long as these aircraft are flown, accidents will always be a possibility.
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