a sade fate to befall such a base 🙁

Surely if you’re all so offended by crashes on you tube, then the answer must be DON’T LOOK FOR THEM!!!

Ive seen the spitfire crash on television more than twice as im sure many people have, the media are cold and heartless. the reason behind looking for the mosquito, id never seen one fly for real, mosquito, consequently, i looked up “mosquito display” on youtube, found a video that had no mention of the crash in its title, though the video was just that. I was a bit shocked to see what happened.

This isnt the first time eddywinch has bought up the subject of RM689 so he may have a personal tie to the accident, justifying his offence at the video being posted on youtube

I know capital letters are intimidating, i dont think that now is a good time to use them, certainly may cause the younger of us to shed a tear :p

i totally agree a total tragedy, there is a video of the mosquito crashing on youtube, but at least the chap who uploaded it edited it so that the actual impact isnt in the video, still all crashes are tradgedies and people just dont treat them as such 🙁

wouldnt that have roasted the elevator and damaged the booms?

you aren’t wrong, the bit of it moving off as well, definitely looks superimposed or some sort of CGI

thats brilliant 🙂 id heard that thats how XR222 managed to survive!

oddly enough, my other half prefers the griffon spitfire, could be to do with the bulges on the cowling 😉 she prefers the clean victor B.1 over all of the other V bombers, and thinks that the TSR.2 Looked stunning in the way that a bird of prey does, she likens the TSR.2 to one, and im inclined to agree 🙂

My guess would be cos theres only 1 “complete” example at cosford and it had lots lf trouble with some sort of spar (correct me of im wrong) in its raf days

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after the switch from high to low level flying, this change in operational proceedure also laid rest to the victor as a bomber. the low level flying accelerated the fatigue on the wingspars. what brought it to the Raf’s attention was, a valiant coming into land, the crew heard a MASSIVE bang, and thought something had fallen off. after having landed it was obvious that one of the wings was drooping considerably, and when the engineers got inside, the spar was found to be cracked/snapped. i believe the whole fleet was immediately grounded after this discovery. i think all of the valiants bar one or two, showed serious fatigue in the wingspars.

i would have said one of the main reasons that, XD818 is still in one piece, would be that it dropped the first british atomic weapon.