454.545454… kg, actually.

No, 500. Everything is bigger in Germany 😉

Unfortunately these things are a quite common occurence. There’s two 1,000-pounders sitting next to the railway line I took to work this morning, waiting to be dismantled later this month. Covered in 6 metres of sand to be sure. They found ‘m during ground works near a bridge that attracted quite a lot of RAF interest in WW2.

PS: It’s dual, not duel

You’ve not flown with students obviously 😉

The German bombardments on Schiphol (May 10th, 1940) destroyed most of the collection of the infant Nationaal Luchtvaartmuseum. A Fokker F.VII and the last Fokker F.II were lost, as were most artifacts. A Fokker D.VII was impounded at the orders of Hermann Goering himself, and taken to the Berlin museum for display.

Well…

– Kaman K-225 N466A is still with us, displayed at the New England Air Museum.
– Sikorsky H-5D 43-46647 was damaged in an accident in December 1953, and not heard of since.
– Bell 47H-1 N966B is still with us, displayed in the Niagara Aerospace Museum.
– Bell 47G-2 N2823B was destroyed in a roll-over accident in February 1976 (pilots OK)

Two out of four ain’t bad.

…which was 33 years ago. One would think that in this day and age a more enlightened attitude to historic aircraft preservation would exist.

Hence the smiley. My point was that it is pointless to link an aircraft’s future to another aircraft’s past misfortune in the same geographical area.

And yes in this case I think the risk was greater than I would have thought prudent.

I´d say risk equals chance times consequence. With consequences of getting hit being that big (death), I´d say being in the path of any low flying aircraft carries a great risk, no matter how small the chance of getting hit.

PS, spoke to the guy standing next to the photographer that lost his life in the glider accident referred to above, some years later. Traumatic would be an understatement for what bystanders witnessed. Some of these witnesses are visitors to this forum.