here is a neat video of a light a/c flying into the museum, coming in right over the centre of Gatwick, and lobbing into the grass strip, stopping between the Shackletons.

Quite amazing they still allow it 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stAWFL7ydZk

Just for the record I assume this was the aircraft that flew out of Filton after overhaul a couple of days before the airfield closed in

If only there were some means, some resource, which we could make use of to check these facts, without having to make random guesses and assumptions.

ZRX61

+1….

Is this not the dreaded ‘speculation’ , about which we are normally warned so vociferously .

Are we now stating , in a public arena, that the cause of this incident, (about which we know almost nothing) , was due to the PIC neglecting to lower the undercarriage.

Is this reversal of the existing conventions to apply for all of 2013, and is it for all of us, or just moderators?

I was just thinking that talking about the dog made a refreshing change from Burma….!! 😀

No

That sort of ultra low-level flying should not be allowed!

There was nobody out there to enjoy it 😉

it should be G-APNZ which was flown by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh from White Waltham in October 1959 (possibly the smallest ‘Royal’ aircraft?)

Not meaning to come over all ‘Dave Spart” and republican, but, to be frank, just because HRH lowered his ample royal backside into this blameless aeroplane, and pedalled gently round the circuit at White Waltham, looking like an over-sized potato balanced in a matchbox, is not, in my opinion, a compelling reason to cherish this aeroplane above all other until the end of time.

There. I said it.

We appreciate your efforts.

That last Hawk has a Kiwi roundel !

Must be someone pretending they’re in a Skyhawk. 😉