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Heads-Up:Sea Fury on BBC1 Close Calls
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On Wednesday 29 October at 11:45am, BBC1 will be showing the programme “Close Calls”. It will feature the fascinating story of how the CO of the Royal Navy Historic Flight heroically got the Sea Fury onto the ground after a catastrophic failure of the engine during his display at RNAS Culdrose Air Day.
Set your Sky+ then donate through http://www.fnht.co.uk to get the aircraft back in the air.
By: mike currill - 17th October 2014 at 07:15
Still the kind of event to give you sleepless nights if you were the one it happened to I guess.
By: CIRCUS 6 - 17th October 2014 at 04:51
Catastrophic, as in a catastrophe, yes it was. Was it a catastrophic destruction of the airframe, no.
By: trumper - 16th October 2014 at 21:00
Depends on your understanding and the value of catastrophic ,it was a catastrophic failure in the sense the plane was forced to make an emergency landing BUT not catastrophic in the terms of physical damage and injuries and death as a result of the emergency landing which in my book looked totally professionally executed.
By: CIRCUS 6 - 16th October 2014 at 20:08
You were not in the aeroplane.
Don’t Nit Pick.
At last, someone talking sense on this forum. I may just change my signature to those 3 words….
By: Oily Rag - 16th October 2014 at 19:42
Is that type of failure considered `catastrophic` ?
It certainly failed but it seemed to do so quite sedately. `Catastrophic` in my book would be bits flying all over the place.
You were not in the aeroplane.
Don’t Nit Pick.
By: hampden98 - 16th October 2014 at 17:47
Is that type of failure considered `catastrophic` ?
It certainly failed but it seemed to do so quite sedately. `Catastrophic` in my book would be bits flying all over the place.
By: Wyvernfan - 16th October 2014 at 16:08
Should be worth watching. Cheers for the heads up.
Rob
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October 16, 2014 at 1:27 pm