David-I was just repeating what John Romain has said about the runway at Denham being fairly short, and the fact that Blenheim 1 touched down a fair way into it-i.e, well past the threshold, thus reducing the amount of limited space even further, leaving the struglging aircraft even less room to gather itself and get going again.
I don’t think there’s much to be done in the way of defending Roy Pullan; Graham Warner is in print saying how he suffered many other ‘rushes of blood to the head’ on prior occasions, and remember, the ‘touch and go’ was NOT authorised by the owner, and they had agreeed not to do any such thing; Pullan went ahead and did it anyway, and then thoroughly, thoroughly c***ked it up.
The CAA prosecuted him, and as is also on record, he then said and did anything he could to get the final report considerably toned down; he refused to just hold his hands up and say ‘Sorry, my fault’.
He took a brand-new and beautiful aircraft, and quite literally threw it away.
John Webb-based on what little we all know about it so far-comes nowhere near that.
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