By: The Blue Max - 9th February 2011 at 20:36
I think the Old Warden aeroplane lost a chunk of cowling when something vital flew off the rotary…
What Rolls-Royce calls an ‘uncontained failure’ these days 😉
I also seem to recollect the Great War Team’s Warner-engined Pup replica having a similar experience.
It was the Great War Teams Sopwith Triplane that Lost its cowl near Rendcomb in 2008. The cowl didnt come right off, it came loose and started to eat its way through the prop!!
By: Arabella-Cox - 9th February 2011 at 19:40
The incident with Shuttleworth’s Pup is well illustrated and described in “Wind in their Wires. The Golden Era of Flight 1909 -1939”. If I was more IT “savy” I would be able to share the images with the assembled company: way beyond my meagre capabililites !!!
It would appear the engine was blameless. “The cause of the accident was traced to the cowling retaining cable which had come adrift in flight, and this has since been modified with a new system of brackets and bolts to supplement the cable. The aircraft was flying again at the start of the 1992 season”.
Lucky escape for the Pup and pilot Bill Bowker by all accounts.
Planemike
By: low'n'slow - 9th February 2011 at 19:01
I think the Old Warden aeroplane lost a chunk of cowling when something vital flew off the rotary…
What Rolls-Royce calls an ‘uncontained failure’ these days 😉
I also seem to recollect the Great War Team’s Warner-engined Pup replica having a similar experience.
By: G-ASEA - 9th February 2011 at 17:52
Didn’t Shuttleworth’s Sopwith Pup lose its cowling some years back to?
Dave
By: trumper - 9th February 2011 at 16:33
It is nice to see the rotary working though.
By: low'n'slow - 9th February 2011 at 14:47
Yikes! Gene was very lucky that it didn’t cause any more damage (to airframe or pilot) as it departed!
Fascinating footage…….
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