Lausanne-based TBM-3 Avenger HB-RDG ‘Charlie’s Heavy’ at Lelystad, The Netherlands this afternoon.

Was the n/w neither up nor down..?Could it have splashed down,beached,fixed,refloat,return..?

They knew that the gear was up but the doors were unlocked. As has been mentioned you run the risk of collapsing some bulkheads in the nose gear bay if you land on water like that. IIRC that’s what sank Plane Sailing’s first Cat.

AFAIK the wings on a BD-5 are removable, but not foldable. So that would make this a modified version for the movie. The BD-5J that flew for the Bond movie is supposedly on display at the Pima Air & Space museum. Could this be the one that was used for the shots on the ground?

There is an airworthy one at Lelystad, The Netherlands, but I think it hasn’t flown much (if at all) for the past two years or so due to issues with money and crewing. Someone else will surely be along soon to correct me on this 😉

Fournier Boy, thanks for your additional information. I was basing this on US rules as I am not that familiar with the UK guidelines in this respect. As we are talking about a US type I figured that the FAA background would still be relevant. From what you explained, it seems that the original certification basis and approved mods are still the reference for any changes that you would like to make to your warbird. Unless you go to the trouble of having a Part 21 organisation develop a modification.

From the article posted by TonyT (and as mentioned by JohnTerrell earlier on), it seems that this is what was done to get an airworthy prop for the two F-82s currently under restoration. But please note that although the prototype MT F-82 prop was flown on P-51A “Polar Bear”, this was only part of the process to get the prop certified. It does not mean that a Mustang prop is available, although if you phone MT props, I’m sure they will happily quote you a price to get one. You would then have to go through the same process to get that one certified.

Because that is the prop it is certified with I would guess.

Fokker F.XXXVI PH-AJQ (Kwikstaart) suffered a double engine failure on take off from Schiphol July 14th, 1935 and hit a dyke in the return to the field.

*cough* Fokker F.XXII *cough* 😉

http://hdekker.info/Nieuwe%20map/1935.htm#14.07.1935

Apparently you can’t feather the prop on a Mustang. I just found an old thread on it.

On 98% of single engined aircraft the prop can’t be feathered, usually the hub is designed to move to full fine when oil pressure is lost (so that it is ready for a go-around). This may be different on older props though.

The two exceptions I know of are Precious Metal (as already mentioned) and Seafire 47 VP441. Both use an ex-Shackleton Griffon and prop and as that had a feathering option available anyway it was left operational. You have to keep in mind that a prop that is able to feather is just one more thing that can go wrong.