Welll, a nice crash pic is always welcome for the saturday edition

I still need to check Saturday’s ‘Telegraaf’, I figure it might still be in there 😉

Now all we can do is hope that somebody will want to put his/her money into getting G-AJOE flying again.

Bit late for Stewart’s project, but worth adding anyway I figured.

Brooklands Fly-in, summer of 1999.

Very sad news. Good to hear that there were no injuries.

I only heard about it an hour or so ago, strangely enough the Dutch news has kept quiet about it! Does anybody know where exactly the forced landing took place? (The fact that there was a dyke there is no useful clue by the way 😉 )

Have you spoken to anyone connected to G-AWZK? There are plans to build a flight simulator out of a Trident nose section to support ZK and they might have a use for some instruments.

Didn’t the Dutch Air Force used to have a display for airshows where they rolled a Friendship? Did that ever loop too?

The Dutch F-27 display was quite lively but it never performed a complete roll, and was never looped (as far as I know). What it did do was perform some very steep turns, with a few banking as much as 120 degrees. While this is more than vertical, it starts in horizontal flight with the turn leaving it at 90 degrees to its original track, and descending. This can be done without putting excessive G on the airframe, and actually all the manouvres the team performed were reviewed by a team of experts for its impact on the airframe, and tested in a sim before the first practice day.

The whole display was energetic, and while it looked impressive, it was very conservative with regards to G-loading and other airframe stresses.

No.10.Martin X.B.-48, what a monster, Well done Archer, I am too knackered now to write about the beast now, as I have M.S. and am about to fall off my seat .
Please fill in for me if you like Archer, or anyone else and write a little about the X.B.-48.

No problem.

The Martin XB-48 was one of four designs based on a 1944 all-jet bomber requirement. It competed against the XB-47 and lost out to that designs superior performance with its swept wings. Only two XB-48s were built.

I think that the design was still influenced by ‘prop-engine’ thinking, hence the straight wings and boxy engine installation. It did have thin wings designed for higher speeds, and this necessitated a tandem landing gear arrangement with two main gears on the fuselage and small outriggers on the outboard side of the engine nacelles. (Pretty similar to the B-47 strangely enough!) This gear arrangement had been tested on a specially converted B-26 Marauder.

More info and photos: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/b4/b4-35.htm

He was a pretty quick reloader then, or can you fit 17 rounds in a standard Luger?

This chap was`nt in the States about a year ago flying a Yak 9/3 was he ????

That was this sequence, the link in post #24 still works, although the audio is out of synch in that version:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25721