Those pieces look familiar. If you use the search button you might find another thread that i’m sure had information about the same site.

Rob

Posted on FB today 🙂 ;

“12.28z EBBR/BRU Abelag tarmac. Touch down of OO-LAC with 1 precious cargo on board….. Tony De Bruyn

Dear friends, as of this afternoon Tony is back home!!!! His very first flight in 2 months :-).

He is recovering very well but still needs your positive thoughts and wishes as the road to recovery is still not at its end…
Unfortunatelly he is still not allowed any visitors, beside his close family, but I am making sure that I pass on all your messages.

To all of you I want to express my personal thanks for keeping Tony in your thoughts.

Kind regards,
Sonja
September 4, 2012″

Rob

I can think of only two fatals, one at Dunsfold air show a few years back.

John Davies (?) i believe, poor chap. The only others i can think of off the top of my head are Wallace Cubitt in his T.7 “on the way” to an airshow and lost in bad weather, and an all blue single seater lost in the USA in a residential area a few years back, after taking off at an airshow and seemingly suffering loss of power whilst flying downwind.

Rob

Speaking of which…
How about the fuel system that allowed the engine to cut out under neg Gs?

Fuel starvation, now where have i heard that one before. Oh yes, Python turboprop – Westland Wyvern. During carrier catapult launch the engine sometimes became starved of fuel just as the aircraft reached the end of the carrier. Result – flame out and ditching of aircraft, as LT. Bruce Mcfarlane RN will testify, having successfully made the worlds first underwater ejection following such an incident.

Following subsequent catapult trials on terra-firma at Farnborough, designed to replicate as far as possible the same conditions on carrier but without the expensive loss of airframe, the problem was solved by fitting a fuel recuperator.. between the fuel tank and engine. This allowed the engine to still receive enough fuel during and just after a catapult launch. But once the launch was completed the normal fuel supply from the tanks then managed to keep the engine turning and burning.

Rob

Must be a Corgi one 😀

Rob

He reminds me of Compo (Bill Owen RIP) from Last of the summer wine, but without the woolly hat 😀

Rob

Ok cheers.

Rob