Black 6
Originally Posted by JonathanF
As I understood the incident, a cooling system failed, destroying the engine and causing the pilot to make a forced landing.
B*****k’s
Originally Posted by JonathanF
Had it not run its airframe hours,
Another load of c**p, and before you reply to my comments I worked on Black 6 for twenty years and I can’t remember the engine being destroyed or the coolant system failing, WHAT I do know is if the pilot had the coolant system selected to auto the coolant blow off valve would not have opened causing coolant to vent on to the exhaust system and then if the pilot had given himself some time to sort himself out instead of landing half way down the grass strip she probably wouldn’t have been damaged at all. As for running out of airframe hours? the only limiting factor was the engine which had life of 200hrs before overhaul. The only reason she is in Hendon is because it was agreed at a meeting before she first flew that we would be allowed to operate her for 3 yrs. So before you make such comments get your facts right.
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