Originally posted by Learning_Slowly
This is not concrete but a rumour I heard was thatthe undercarriage clipped the bank of the motorway and then collapsed. Please don’t take this as a definate answer but just rumour that has circulated. As I said I think the damage was minor.

I.m hoping that is wrong as the photo shows the aircraft at 180deg to that I think, If it ground looped that can put an awfull amount of stress through the airframe. My best wishes & thoughts go to all at ARCO & to John Webb.

As to the comments regarding the media, I have to say it gets quite boring hearing moans all the time about the media not getting it right, maybe it’s time we all took them at face value instead of complaining all the time, They report what they hear & in a way that 90% of the population will understand without the technical bits & pieces that some of us understand through our enthusiasm for aviation, we are around 10% if that of the total population in this country so what right have we got to demand that the media reports these events in aviation enthusiast terms? Come on guys, get real, If you feel that strongly about it, offer to be the papers ‘aviation expert’ for your local area, if you know enough about it that way you can educate both the papers & the public but be careful not to baffle them with science!
I await the teddy’s at altitude!;)

Originally posted by Yak 11 Fan
Isn’t a shock wave normally brown??

Not if you’ve been drinking all night in ‘First Left’ on Gilze-Rijen AB Iv’e seen a few exhaust rings like that me self! but thats another story!.:D 😀 😀
Just a quick yarn about the base,
we had a fly in there one weekend ‘The Iscar Rally’ I think it was called, anyway, It was part sponsered by a brewery so, they delivered many boxes of a brew called Corona I think, that you drink with a chunk of lime in the top of the bottle, as the visitors had to leave before dusk as to get back to there base airfields none of the brew was drunk! Boy did we have a party as we were living on the base!! I had some good times over there during the years I was with the RLNAF 😉

Can’t be a Dutch Stag, it’s moving too fast! can’t see the coffee cup either!:D 😀 😀

Originally posted by Willow
Also depends what you are calling an original part!! If you find an aeroplane now, do you count everything on it as original?

A, Yes, you have to start somewhere

Many parts may have been changed in service. Has someone tried to restore it before?

A, I think if you are picking up someone elses pieces you have to start again

It’s like Triggers broom ‘3 new heads and 4 new handles and it’s still going strong’.

Willow

I think you are missing my point, a lot of Spitfire re builds these days have very few ‘original’ parts included in the re build, the rest of the parts are ‘new’ ie, made from either pattens or drawings, after all, you can build a new airframe around a set of data plates! so, what % of original parts do you need to build into the airframe before it becomes a replica?

Originally posted by sconnor
The pilot had just taken off and kept it low after retracting the undercarriage. Perfectly normal procedure as anyone who attends Flying Legends would have seen.

It was not a low pass.

Warbird UK you are wrong.

Have to disagree with you there! It’s NOT normal departure procedure on take off to hold that altitude after take off, nor is it normal procedure to fly at people on the ground. There are three areas of stupidity here,
1, Air traffic for allowing the take off with people on the runway, if indeed this was shot from a take off which I doubt as I see no ground markings,
2, The pilot for agreeing to fly in that manner, especially in front of a film crew.
3, The film crew for positioning where they did.
All in all, fodder for the anti brigade, Not good for our industry!

Why is it ‘poor taste’? Things happen in life every day, does that mean we have to waite for someone else to sort it out before we dare to comment? or is it just in aviation this happens?