Possibly Hercules (the aircraft, not the engine).

Anon.

100% not: C-130 spinners aren’t metallic.

So you’re in the USA, and you’re going to ship the aircraft to Hungary for repair, then back to the USA to carry on?

Sounds sensible: it flew in Europe for some time before the trip and got her to Australia OK, so they seem to know what they’re doing.

Have seen her a few times at shows and wish her a speedy resuming of the quest.

…I’d love to see the Percival Q6 that is currently under restoration added to the collection. A beautiful British pre-war civil type, and a large and impressive machine that would fit the bill of being flyable on windy days. Imagine it flying with the Anson and various DH twins!

Oh yes!!! Form a queue here to start donating towards that… :applause: :applause: :eagerness:

It seems strange that a ‘member’ of this forum can cause such mass aggravation and still be allowed to peddle his tripe with such regularity. It’s obviously a business and as such surely contravenes the spirit (if not the rules) of said forum?

Sad to see but looks like a reasonably OK outcome for the pilot. Tigers generally repair well too.

I see the media has already added a customary bit of spin: shock horror the very same aircraft (‘plane’) was involved in a crash 15 years ago.

Probably doing a loop-the-loop…

Whilst I fear that now we are straying into rather arcane territory, the words are French – but isn’t everything regarding good food? – and a restaurateur is a person who owns and/or manages a restaurant. But please, for heavens sake, don’t ask me why one word includes the letter n and the other does not!

I think the derivation is different: a restaurateur is one who restores, rather than an owner of a restaurant (from the verb restaurer, to restore). If any of that is correct then my O-Level French was not a complete waste of time.

A case in point being the word, deterioration, which many news reporters like to pronounce, ‘deteriation’.

Another is the common practice of putting a letter ‘n’ in the word, restaurateur.

And I also note the detrimental effect of using affect (or effect) in the wrong place!