Sea Fury crashes at Duxford

[WelshChris]

Apparently there’s been an incident at Duxford - I know nothing more I’m afraid.

[dukeboy749r]

I cannot find anything on this - how did you hear/where did you read this?

The only BBC News story appears to be this - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-53652...

[WelshChris]

I saw it on Twitter - link here:

https://twitter.com/ukairshowreview/status/1290675...

[Amused2death]

More here....
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-ne...

[TR4man]

That’s sad, hope everyone is alright.

What does the article mean by the plane “had to undertake a false landing”? Either it landed or it didn’t.

[surveyor]

TR4man said:

That’s sad, hope everyone is alright.

What does the article mean by the plane “had to undertake a false landing”? Either it landed or it didn’t.

Means the reporter is clueless.

[aeropilot]

Oh no, not again....!

It was only a couple of weeks ago that it was the 30th anniversary of it ending up in a field in pieces after smashing into several trees, after an identical engine failure just after take off when WG655 was being operated by the RNHF.

[wheelerc]

BBC article says pilot died, Cambridge News article says pilot and passenger had light injuries?

Are these two separate incidents?

[MitchT]

surveyor said:

TR4man said:

That’s sad, hope everyone is alright.

What does the article mean by the plane “had to undertake a false landing”? Either it landed or it didn’t.

Means the reporter is clueless.

They were probably told it was a forced landing and had cotton wool in their ears.

[Tony1963]

aeropilot said:

after an identical engine failure

How do you know that?

[aeropilot]

wheelerc said:

BBC article says pilot died, Cambridge News article says pilot and passenger had light injuries?

Are these two separate incidents?

Err, did you not read them?

The BBC article is about a light aircraft crash in East Sussex, which is not Cambridgeshire (where the Sea Fury crash landed)

[Eric Mc]

Sad to see this happen. Hope everybody is OK.

I think that this Sea Fury had been rebuilt with a Pratt and Whitney engine, replacing the original Bristol Centaurus. I saw it flying last year.

[Eric Mc]

Some video footage of the start up and take-off of the flight is on You Tube -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6H0YAE2p0g&fe...

[aeropilot]

Eric Mc said:

Sad to see this happen. Hope everybody is OK.

I think that this Sea Fury had been rebuilt with a Pratt and Whitney engine, replacing the original Bristol Centaurus. I saw it flying last year.

Yes, ironically done because of the unreliability issues these days of the Centaurus
Its one of the Sanders engine conversions, which are a self contained power-egg type retro-fit, allowing a swap back to the Centaurus engine in a relatively straight forward swap in not much time.

The engine looked to start trailing quite a bit of smoke from the port exhaust stacks, pretty much just after it left the ground and was tucking up the wheels in that video....

[Ayahuasca]

Oh dear. The fuselage seems to have snapped at the pilot’s seat area - must have been uncomfortable.

Interesting asymmetric radiators in the wing roots.

[Europa1]

surveyor said:

TR4man said:

That’s sad, hope everyone is alright.

What does the article mean by the plane “had to undertake a false landing”? Either it landed or it didn’t.

Means the reporter is clueless.

It's par for the course with Cambridge News journalism.

[joshleb]

I went for a walk with the family around Harston and saw lots of people heading to go look at something and a couple of police cars nearby.

Didn't think anything of it really until I searched for Harston on twitter and saw this.

[Eric Mc]

Ayahuasca said:

Oh dear. The fuselage seems to have snapped at the pilot’s seat area - must have been uncomfortable.

Interesting asymmetric radiators in the wing roots.

I think one radiator is for the oil cooler and the other is for the engine radiator. The design was also used on the Centaurus engined Tempest II.

[Neptune188]

wheelerc said:

BBC article says pilot died, Cambridge News article says pilot and passenger had light injuries?

Are these two separate incidents?

The pilot in the Sea Fury was OK. Believed still alive this morning...

[Ayahuasca]

Eric Mc said:

I think one radiator is for the oil cooler and the other is for the engine radiator. The design was also used on the Centaurus engined Tempest II.

Is not the Centaurus air-cooled?

Would the engine have a radiator?