Bv138 definately.

I can state categorically that the TBM at North Weald will not be going to the Netherlands. 😀

Nice to see George French’s Tiger Moth G-BACK/DF130 is still around……

And when exactly did you see it Mike? Was it sometime afterwards or did you see it actully happen i’e the aircraft landed with the prop missing? The prop was removed after the incident…..

GAXAN said:

The prop was damaged and removed.

Lets just say some of us on this forum have a little more ‘Hands on’ knowledge of things like this than others, and I hate to see tabloid journalism creeping into this forum 😀

I think having an afterburner fitted moves the aircraft into the ‘complex’ type category, and therefore needs manufacturers type back-up and support.

I heard that it was the Beaufighter, Fiat CR42 and TF-51D limbering up for a possible appearence at Legends 2006……

………..But then , It was almost certainly a group of Yaks from the Formation School at North Weald.

Latest news – Both aircraft took off from Jersey en-route for DX at 1715hrs 🙂

Maybe a bit more serious than we thought. According to the guys who were on duty that day she lost bits of the engine including the whirly thing on the front. She’s going nowhere for a while yet as she’s still sat out on the airfield looking very sad with no prop on the front. Amazing how something as small as a Tiger Moth prop hub can be so conspicuous by its absence.

Never heard so much rubbish….Ses G-AXAN’s post above The prop never departed, and the aircraft only had a rough running engine, so landed back onto the airfield after taking off on Rwy 27. Left MLG collapsed after a fairly heavy landing. A fairly minor incident me thinks.

…..Or did anyone else see the pilot avoiding a school as he fought with the controls, combined with ‘Harvard like’ engine sound in the background, followed by a HUGE American style fireball…….?