Interesting aircraft at Booker
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Check this out - it's only a few miles from Booker
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/4875997.Myste...
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/4875997.Myste...
PetrolTed said:
Check this out - it's only a few miles from Booker
http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/4875997.Myste...
Whoops a daisy.http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/4875997.Myste...
That'll be one of the Nanchangs then.
Time to make a couple of phone calls.
Just spoke to the pilot of the Nanchang.
Precautionary landing when the weather turned unexpectedly nasty, but sadly hit a patch of soft ground which dipped the nose and caused a prop-strike.
Plod, CAA and everyone else who needs to be have been informed, suspect the newspaper article involves a healthy degree of journalistic hyperbole.
Precautionary landing when the weather turned unexpectedly nasty, but sadly hit a patch of soft ground which dipped the nose and caused a prop-strike.
Plod, CAA and everyone else who needs to be have been informed, suspect the newspaper article involves a healthy degree of journalistic hyperbole.
Eric Mc said:
"World War 2 style replica" indeed.
Time for those coppers to go on an aircraft recognition course.
POLICE were called to....full size 'spitfire-style' aeroplane Time for those coppers to go on an aircraft recognition course.
Sergeant Scott Long said....... “There's no sign of the pilot but it looks like a replica World War Two Chinese fighter plane....
The plane has symbols and red stars on its body
and wings. "There's nothing we can really do tonight so we are going to leave it and deal with it in the morning."
Mr Chinese aeroplane, I am arrestin' you for impersonating a Spitfire. You do not have to say anythin', but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention something, when questioned, that you later rely on in court...anything you do say will be treated with surprise. Tie up its body, lads...and don't scratch the symbols, they be evidence
To be fair, most people wouldn't know a Nanchang CJ6 from a Yak-52 - and they do share some common DNA via the Yak-18.
I have a bit of stick time in the Nanchang concerned, and have a lot more time in formation with it - most recently weekend before last.
There are times when the wisest thing to do is to stick the aeroplane into a field - sadly, on this occasion the aeroplane was bent as a result, but the alternative invariably results in a far worse outcome.
I have a bit of stick time in the Nanchang concerned, and have a lot more time in formation with it - most recently weekend before last.
There are times when the wisest thing to do is to stick the aeroplane into a field - sadly, on this occasion the aeroplane was bent as a result, but the alternative invariably results in a far worse outcome.
eharding said:
To be fair, most people wouldn't know a Nanchang CJ6 from a Yak-52 - and they do share some common DNA via the Yak-18.
I have a bit of stick time in the Nanchang concerned, and have a lot more time in formation with it - most recently weekend before last.
There are times when the wisest thing to do is to stick the aeroplane into a field - sadly, on this occasion the aeroplane was bent as a result, but the alternative invariably results in a far worse outcome.
I wouldn't be able to tell them apart unless I was able to get a really close look. ButI have a bit of stick time in the Nanchang concerned, and have a lot more time in formation with it - most recently weekend before last.
There are times when the wisest thing to do is to stick the aeroplane into a field - sadly, on this occasion the aeroplane was bent as a result, but the alternative invariably results in a far worse outcome.
a) it's not WW2
b) it's not really WW2 "style" (whatever that means)
c) it's nothing like a Spitfire
Engine deemed to have been shock-loaded, which can take a while to sort out.
The scrotes who got at it overnight in the field managed to raise the gear selector (without effect), nick a couple of headsets, and appeared to have been trying to remove the decorative (but non-functional) vintage Chinese radio in the back (at least I was told it was non-functional, but best not to turn it on in case an oriental voice started demanding the return of the aeroplane to the PLA).
The pilot was down at the club today. Once the usual 'there are those that, have, and those that will' stuff was out of the way, the serious business of extracting the proverbial began.
There are a number of wrecked propellors attached to the rafters in the clubhouse at Waltham, but one of the as-yet unadorned rafters now has a "Reserved" sign on it.
The scrotes who got at it overnight in the field managed to raise the gear selector (without effect), nick a couple of headsets, and appeared to have been trying to remove the decorative (but non-functional) vintage Chinese radio in the back (at least I was told it was non-functional, but best not to turn it on in case an oriental voice started demanding the return of the aeroplane to the PLA).
The pilot was down at the club today. Once the usual 'there are those that, have, and those that will' stuff was out of the way, the serious business of extracting the proverbial began.
There are a number of wrecked propellors attached to the rafters in the clubhouse at Waltham, but one of the as-yet unadorned rafters now has a "Reserved" sign on it.
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