The P-51 is doing Cosford this weekend, was also at Duxford today for a short time..As you say, very attractive pax!

As was expected, this FAA Emergency AD has now been sent out to all UK owners of Harvards….

No aerobatics, flight in turbulence or flights with passengers until the requirements of the AD have been complied with..which basically, is a dye penetrant check of the wing attachment flanges for cracks, and rectification work if required.

I take it you dont eat stoats in your part of the world? 😮

A pair of scruffy desert boots for most things, but I do wear RAF flying boots for heavy metal and jets with Ejector seats..

I have flown barefoot, but only the once (it was a VERY hot day!)

Sorry if I came across all tetchy Moggy.

Just re-read the report and the aircraft was taking off towards the main gate at OW. Seem to remember a similar thing happened with the Fox Moth G-ACEJ back in the 80s, which had a Beech Musketeer crash on top of it, which then caught fire and destroyed the Fox Moth. After this I think they restricted the use of this runway to home-based aircraft only..

A bit of a co-incidence, but I was reading some old AAIB reports at work the other day. On the 26th June 1966, a Cessna 172, G-ASHE, got airborne after that day’s air display at Old Warden and performed a fairly steep climb after take-off, maybe trying to emulate the display aircraft?. The aircraft’s drag rapidly overcame the available thrust & lift and the resultant pile of wreckage ended up in the spectator car park. The pilot and two innocent members of the public on the ground were killed……… 🙁

It still ain’t clever to do it, even after all these years and as somebody said earlier, take a look at the video clip of the Pulsar that the CAA Safety Evening guy shows….VERY impressive zoom climb on departure from a fly-in, but an even more impressive thud……and then silence!

Rochester?

I thought that G-BBMI was a Dewoitine D26….?

I also think that the high parasol wing monoplane was a Morane Saulnier and was registered in the Irish republic, along with all the other aircraft used in the film (It was shot in Eire), but cant seem to find my notes..This will give me an excuse to watch the film again!