Not too bad really. I suspect he never got in the air, but just went wobbling off sideways

There’s only one thing worse than bending your Tiger Moth, and that is bending your friend’s Tiger Moth….

Pilot’s account thus.

” We were displaying at Culdrose just before the Sea Fury and had just landed and were watching it and spoke to the pilot afterwards.. we also bought him a beer.

He felt the engine go rough during his display so he closed the throttle, climbed and put the gear down. He put out a PAN call. Then as he headed for the runway he opened the throttle and nothing happened.

He then realised he wasn’t going to make the runway so he raised the gear to improve the glide. He made it to the threshold and then put the gear down. Both wheels made it down and he landed on them right at the numbers. Unfortunately the right gear hadn’t had time to lock and it collapsed on roll-out. which caused the right wing to hit the runway. This then made it slew round and it was then going sideways which caused the left gear to fail. It then went off onto the grass and stopped. The pilot go out unaided.

It was a fantastic piece of airmanship. Having the presence of mind raise the gear and then lower it saved it from being a much more serious incident. Obviously the engine was going to need looking at, the prop was wrecked but most of the airframe was saved.” Delta Juliet.

http://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=90835

This is surely the way ahead. Griffon reliability :o[ATTACH=CONFIG]230734[/ATTACH]

The RNHF must have had the longest run of rotten luck in preservation history. Three aeroplanes lost, one fatality, and a seemingly constant run of down time due to serviceability issues. Lets just hope that things start to get better for them from here.

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The Confederate Air Force have had what you might call worse luck, though of course they have operated many more ‘airplanes’, which have been operated by individuals with varying degrees of experience.

Certainly the BBMF with a Merlin/Griffon based fleet has been far less troubled by servicability issues, and if you lost an engine on the Lanc you have a bit more time to sort things out .

Looking at the smoke in the video, something big has let go in the engine….

http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2014-07-31/sea-fury-makes-emergency-landing-at-culdrose/

This is a good result, in the circs. This sort of thing has often ended so much worse.

I will hazard a guess that the Lancaster duo has upped the interest considerably.

Word is that the bombers will also be appearing on that day at the Moth event at Woburn, not too far from Sywell, and a great day out for any enthusiast for old aeroplanes.

I just hope the Lancs appear as a tight two-ship formation, and not in loose line astern .

How sad to hear of the death of Mr Edwards’ son. It must be heart-breaking to lose a son or daughter. I hope he’s able to see the aircraft go to good homes.

Quite so. These have come to market in the saddest of circumstances, with nobody now to take them on.

Shame it has run its course. It was a good effort, and was a nice ‘grown up’ community, not too ‘shouty’, more broad sheet than tabloid.