It feels like more than one location ( apart from Northolt) one site seems semi derelict but the other not so, and there seems to be a railway embankment on the boundary which made me think of Hendon, or Radlett.

Sometimes it looked a bit like North Weald, but the hangars didn’t seem quite right. Debden, Kenley …….?

Flyer forum saying PA-22 G-ARHN went into the trees and the outcome sounds encouraging- fingers crossed reports are reliable.

http://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=79101

19.00 Mk 1 Spit flying into the setting sun over Chesham, heading for Goodwood perhaps?

This was the previous report.

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/DH89A%20Dragon%20Rapide,%20G-AIYR.pdf

”An eye witness, who was standing in front of and to
the right facing the aircraft, saw a long flame shoot out
of the exhaust of the starboard engine during start-up
(the exhaust being on the starboard side of the engine).
This flame started a fire on the rear fabric-covered
under-surface of the lower starboard wing, just outboard
of the engine.”

I recommend that in the future all Rapides be fitted with a flameproof panel under the wing, which will be known as the ‘Propstrike Panel’ – I will make millions in sales, and will be forever imortalised in Aviation history 😉

Deja vu, all over again.

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/image31866.html

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The reason I’m asking is that I witnessed a mid-air today at the Dutch coast near Wassenaar (north of The Hague). Two aircraft, one carrying a banner, one filming the first, had a collision with a third aircraft flying in front of them (also carrying a banner). The wingman hit the third aircraft with its landing gear.

You refer to a wingman, but then say the Cessna was the formation leader ( ie photoship :confused:

Whatever, it sounds as though the Cessna failed to keep a look out and rammed the other Cub. One cannot really be expected to maintain a good lookout directly behind, ie the Cub pilot. The may have been a bit of competitive manoeuvering between the two banner aircraft, but that is only conjecture.

More important though, is the great good fortune which prevented two fatal crashes, which could so easily have occurred.

Very sad news.

That’s three of the veteran ‘Reno’ set lost in a year.

Jimmy Leeward (74), Howard Pardue (77) and Bob Odegaard (62)