By: RMAllnutt - 16th May 2010 at 17:33
”Undercarriage lever a bit sticky was it Sir ? ”
”Yes , as a matter of fact it was.”
”Well I wouldn’t go telling the CO that if I was you”
”But I am the CO…….”:D
Well done old boy… well done! What a perfect response 😀
Cheers,
Richard
PS. Glad they solved the problem so ably.
By: 12jaguar - 16th May 2010 at 17:20
The poster was “grounded”, it’s not the title of the thread:)
By: Bruce - 16th May 2010 at 16:43
How’s that?
By: Icare9 - 16th May 2010 at 16:13
As it WASN’T a forced landing, any chance you could amend the caption, grounded?
It’ll save Spitfire afficionados having a heart attack thinking there had actually been a forced landing………..
By: trumper - 16th May 2010 at 10:58
”Undercarriage lever a bit sticky was it Sir ? ”
”Yes , as a matter of fact it was.”
”Well I wouldn’t go telling the CO that if I was you”
”But I am the CO…….”:D
😀 Brilliant 😀
By: Propstrike - 16th May 2010 at 10:17
”Undercarriage lever a bit sticky was it Sir ? ”
”Yes , as a matter of fact it was.”
”Well I wouldn’t go telling the CO that if I was you”
”But I am the CO…….”:D
By: Last Lightning - 16th May 2010 at 10:01
From what I’ve heard the undercarriage lever in the cockpit was stuck, so the pilot went to Cranwell to avoid closing Coningsby (a bad landing at Coningsby would ground the QRA jets) after some negative G manoeuvres the lever freed itself, the pilot was then able to land without mishap.
I’m lead to belive the pilot involved was the BBMF CO, the Spitfire MK356 returned to Coningsby on Thursday(13th)
By: grounded - 16th May 2010 at 09:27
SPITFIRE FORCED LANDING
Thanks Daz da man, glad it was not serious.
By: DazDaMan - 16th May 2010 at 09:07
It was the Mk.IX, and it was a precautionary landing. All seems fine, though.
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