Yes agreed CD not suggesting this to be the cause; I do think that things go south real quick as a display pilot, as you are already close to the ground for display purposes; I would think a fairly natural reaction to loss of power, would be to push the throttle forward quickly, which often has a negative reaction in terms of stabilising power delivery.

Not a lot of thinking time, with an engine failure, and as said in the video clip a lot of information to process.

Or to put it another way “turns out it’s worth a fortune, so form an orderly queue with you cheque books at the ready”

I love the bit in the video where the ground crew jump on the tail plane so the pilot can run the engine at high revs, not seen that before, but seems obvious really

If it is to be part of a re enactors display, then possibly not; see Spinal Tap for details………

I’ve seen this story pop in on the RAF Wethersfield page a few times, concensus of opinion is he was well versed in C130 operation; I’m surprised there is not a definitive time for the take off of the A/C but if he did indeed fly it in the dark, (single handed) then it’s a shame his abilities weren’t recognised before that unfortunate event, and channelled into something more positive.

Again I can’t see why the US would need to borrow a Lightning to shoot their aeroplane down, or why a Russian spy would need a C130; these were the days of microfilm after all…….

It’s a good job I didn’t say I was underwhelmed with plane resurrection, (Nick) but the Hurricane episode challenged much of what I thought I knew, (which came via flypast magazine all those years ago) at the time it was hailed as being nothing more than a light restoration, but clearly that wasn’t the case; I also find it hard to watch the Mustang, but for very different reasons.

When you eventually fall out of love with a provider like Sky, everything you have on the “box” is lost; I also had a problem with the system, and the nice man on the phone said the only way to fix it was to delete all the recordings……it didn’t.

I have Piece of cake on the “box” but never looked at it; watched it on DVD the other night no breaks/ads just how it should be.

One of the best documentaries has to be a Spitfire story, I haven’t seen it for maybe a decade, but before that it was on nearly every week; there’s even a bloke on there who’s a dead ringer for one of our mods……..

Depends on how old they are !