Picture from FB. Marvelous !

A tribute to Graham Warner. Such a shame he is not around to see the aeroplane back in the air.

That video is a bit like witnessing a murder.

We can’t save them all of course, but it just seems odd and brutal to do that to an airworthy aeroplane……………:(

This was the scariest moment of the day, at the very end on Sat

The three DC-3’s performed a formation landing, one on the hard and two on the grass. L4 , nearest the fence found itself running out of room, and hard braking on the wet grass was ineffective. In this photo, it is still moving quite fast, and as it hit the tarmac it finally got some traction and with a screech of rubber and a lurch to the left, just managed not to take out the fence !

I bet it went a bit quiet in the cockpit for a bit !

Rumour has it that the IXT will soon be based at Goodwood, for the provision of perfectly legit, transparent, public warbird experience flights. The CAA are proving most co-operative.

The aeroplane is now registered to RV Aviation Ltd, owned by Richard Verrall, one of the current pilots of the Boultbee Flight Academy, who of course operate their own two-seat Spitfire G-ILDA

Thread here on the collection

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?112151-Postwar-British-jet-farm-at-Birlingham-UK

4 souls safe, that is the main thing, the only thing really.

If you have a ballistic chute, an engine failure seems a pretty good time to use it.
There is a statistic somewhere about the percentage of forced landings which end very badly, and it is not especially reassuring.