Just caught this on Facebook this morning..Hurricane P3351 nosed over after it overran the runway at Darois.No injuries to report but Hurri needs a prop looked at.
By: Lazy8 - 28th May 2015 at 16:38
Shhhhh, Beermat. The APF is still supposed to be a secret.
By: Beermat - 28th May 2015 at 16:36
Stroke of luck, that, Happymeal. If it had ended up in a ditch it would doubtless have been sealed in a concrete-roofed bunker, ready for the rising of the English-backed Aquitaine People’s Front.
By: Sopwith - 28th May 2015 at 14:11
Thank you mackerel and Mike J for your replies
By: happymeal - 28th May 2015 at 13:00
There is no excavation at the end of the grass runway (shorter than the concrete one). Rather, owing to some construction of a new hangar just started, what has been a ditch for years is now being filled – this is what shows on the photos. If it had not be for those fillings, the Hurricane would have fall down the ditch, or rather what is the very steep slope of the hill. That is what happened to Yak-9 F-AZYJ some years ago, and it was very severely damaged.
By: Mayhem Marshy - 28th May 2015 at 10:30
Looking at the report and two consequent photos, it looks to be quite a sizeable excavation, considering it’s so close to the runway
By: Mike J - 28th May 2015 at 07:43
It is based at Dijon, where the accident happened. It was returning from the weekend at La Ferte Alais, where we watched it display in the hands of its owner, and appears to have run off the end of the runway there on landng back at home base. 🙁
By: ErrolC - 28th May 2015 at 00:35
Wings Over NZ thread covering P3351’s time in NZ:
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/post/181217/thread
By: mackerel - 27th May 2015 at 23:32
Yes Sopwith it is ! Based somewhere in France now, not sure where. We did the wings for this back in 1995 at AirframeAssemblies while Hawker Restorations did most of the rest !
Steve”P”
By: Sopwith - 27th May 2015 at 21:31
So is this Hurricane that was in New Zealand with the Alpine Fighter Collection and where is normally based now?
By: Mike J - 27th May 2015 at 15:59
It’s a damn sight more than a blown tyre!
By: Flying_Pencil - 27th May 2015 at 15:41
Spectacular accident Sunday afternoon on the airfield of Darois.
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Oh, that news hyperbole.
Blown tire and its front page news!
I too am happy its a relatively minor mishap and the only injury is a red face and reputation.
By: paulmcmillan - 27th May 2015 at 11:16
At least they didn’t order a middle aged Flight Sergeant to burn the “lame duck”
By: Beermat - 27th May 2015 at 11:12
Why do Aero-Restorations say the aircraft was ‘repatriated’ to France? Bit cheeky, that.
By: Mayhem Marshy - 27th May 2015 at 10:24
sadly, but not unsurprisingly, the Flying Legends participants page has shown the aircraft as being withdrawn from this year’s line up. Hope to see it gracing the skies again in due course…
By: TonyT - 26th May 2015 at 21:47
Yes
By: J Boyle - 26th May 2015 at 18:26
This might be a good time to ask a general question to any engineers out there….
Would a frangible wooden prop mean there would be less engine damage in the case of a sudden stoppage like this?
By: TonyT - 26th May 2015 at 16:41
Call me old fashioned, but lifting it by the prop and hence the end of the shaft wouldn’t have been my first choice, I would have thought the engine bearer would have been more sensible, or pull off the wing root farings and lift it on the spars…. Though I confess I know nowt about Hurricanes.
Leg does not look good, though that explains the images on the original link with the cover over it and no attempt to drop the tail back down
By: One of the Few - 26th May 2015 at 16:32
What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over……I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin!. ( cue music! ) 😀
By: AlanR - 26th May 2015 at 13:30
Ouch !!
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th May 2015 at 13:08
By the look of that right leg the prop and shock loaded engine will be the least of their worries.
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