http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-34537135
Admirable restraint if you ask me – I’d have something stronger!
Adrian
By: Chitts - 16th October 2015 at 20:13
How did the C3 worry the pilot? Dogs worry sheep, was this something similar?
By: K8B - 16th October 2015 at 11:52
The original Aeronca C-2 G-ABHE belonged to Major Jack Parham. He forced landed at Four Marks, near Alton after the engine disintegrated on 16.7.36. Rebuilt as a glider, with a new cockpit mounted in front of the old firewall, it made its first hops at Bordon on 24.3.37. . .
By: Arabella-Cox - 16th October 2015 at 07:58
He’ll be flying on Saturday. The JAP engine might take 7 days to rebuild!
By: flyernzl - 15th October 2015 at 21:15
Well done that man.
May he and the Aeronca fly again!
By: hampden98 - 15th October 2015 at 20:36
He said: “I was working away and I heard a big crash behind me. I turned around and there was a big propeller about 10ft behind me”
“It was a matter of milliseconds – but straight away managed to get it on ebay!”
By: bazv - 15th October 2015 at 19:35
Yes and EFT is the actual C3 used in the making of that very british docu : )
Glad all went ok for the pilot !
By: DragonRapide - 15th October 2015 at 19:32
Lovely programme – really enjoyed it.
“I say, old girl – would you give notice if I bought an aeroplane?”
By: Auster Fan - 15th October 2015 at 17:49
That would be Flying for Fun, made in about 1987…?
By: ozplane - 15th October 2015 at 16:15
And which featured in a delightful BBC documentary about it’s owner. The glider sequences were done with a large scale model but they fooled me but that’s not hard.
By: Arabella-Cox - 15th October 2015 at 15:37
Must be trying to emulate one of its forebears, G-ABHE first Aeronca C2 on UK register which was apparently converted to a glider in 1936…..
By: J Boyle - 15th October 2015 at 15:10
Well done, but remember that a C-3 with the engine working is only a step or two above being non-powered!
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