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http://www.aerosociety.com/News/Insight-Blog/4100/Dogfight-over-UK-airshows-uintensifies
You say about lack of experience on fast jets, one could say the same is also relevant to piston fighters, unlike their civilian counterparts that may have hundreds of hours on Piston aircraft qualifying for their ATPLs before flying warbirds, the BBMF pilots will probably have 60 hrs on the Tutor possibly years before prior to joining, the rest will be Tuccano and jets. A different kettle of fish in comparison.
It really annoys me when you have civilian “Spitfire pilots” and everyone says how great she or he is… They can be the crapiest pilots out there but because they fly a Spitfire etc everyone assumes they are good when in fact the only common denominator is simply the size of their wallet.
What an extraordinarily silly comment, obviously laced with a large spoonful of sour grapes.
I think you will find that most UK warbird accidents fatal or otherwise, involved military or ex military pilots.
I doubt whether you are qualified to judge a good pilot from a ‘crappy’ one anyway.
Airshows???
There won’t be any airshows, unless more people sign this petition. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/120628
The digital age doesn’t help the problem of lost photos….it makes it worse.
One man’s ‘improve’ is another man’s Fake. Unless you live in a matchbox the space your average families photos take up is not an issue.
I say again. No one is ever going to find your old photos in a box when you’ve gone. They are on that broken hard drive, or discarded computer that won’t boot, or on that remote hosting website that nobody knows about, or has your password for, if they did.
The digital age doesn’t help the problem of lost photos….it makes it worse.
No one is ever going to find your old photos in a box when you’ve gone. They are on that broken hard drive, or discarded computer that won’t boot, or on that remote hosting website that nobody knows about, or has your password for, if they did.
Recovered from the Bzura river, not Vistula.
Just got home from Shoreham where of course I witnessed this accident. The aircraft flew across the airfield northwards then performed a loop rolling off the top to begin a shallow descent back across the airfield. The loop was completed at a safe altitude and the aircraft was in a gentle descent. Upon pulling up the nose of the aircraft lifted satisfactorily but the aircraft continued to lose height rapidly, vanishing beyond trees in a nose up attitude. It appeared that when the pilot called for power he didn’t get it and once the aircraft lost speed there was no height left to point the nose down. It was clear to me that she was going in and must have been far more evident and urgent to the pilot. I believe he had time to eject and cannot understand why he did not do so. I believe the road casualties were mostly waiting to enter the show.
A good illustration of the unreliability of eye witness reports, as from the video, this is clearly not what happened. Looks more like a reverse Half Cuban gone wrong.
That Airspeed indicator seems quite reasonable when you consider its original. A good quality repro one from http://www.aerovintagespares.com/avspares/Sopwith_Aircraft_Parts.html will set you back over £1600.
I believe they changed the logo because the old one looks too much like a Sopwith Triplane hitting a fence.
The Tiger Moth taxiing past puts the size of those replicas in perspective. It seems that Great War aircraft were either tiny or huge with no in between.
Both the Sopwith Triplane and Fokker Triplane are full size replicas.
Bf109. Late Gustav series looks like.
So you think this is a Messerschmitt?….. I don’t !
The second gun camera photo (#8) is unmistakably a Spitfire……..oops!
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He was pardoned primarily because although the State still has something to say about human sexuality it does so with a much lighter touch and deservedly so. Because a law is placed on Statute or becomes Common Law doesn’t necessarily make it a wise and just law. Read again my last paragraph in 19 above. Societies values ebb and flow and we change or should change accordingly.
Or, would you still hang or transport children for stealing a slice of bread ?
You are missing my point old chap.
Some people here seem to think that if you are doing a certain job, it puts you above the law of the land. Alan Turing was breaking the law. Doing valuable work does not excuse you from obeying the law. So what is the reasoning behind the pardon? If he’s pardoned because the law has changed then many others have also to be pardoned. If he’s pardoned because of the work he was doing, then that is quite simply wrong from a legal standpoint.
Nasty and tragic crash. Not an accident as it was, in my opinion, entirely avoidable.
Anon.
Being ‘avoidable’ does not mean it’s not an accident. It was an accident or he did it on purpose, you choose.
I saw it go in. Very upsetting.
Complete twaddle.
Its in the public interest to be made aware. If no one wants to read this stuff, then why has this thread generated so much interest in such a short space of time? If you had bothered to follow the link in post 67 you would see that the vendor in this case has himself made some pretty brutal accusations against others in the past.
Live by the sword, Die by the sword !