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T-6 accident
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Cool. Not a lot you can do when you leave a wreck somewhere anyway but own up. Wonder what he'd make of his countrymen's craze for burying vintage aircraft. Bertie It's been a mess over there for sure. That last Hurricane was a real shame. I lost three friends in the UK in unrelated accidents in the last several years. Ted Girdler (ex- Red Arrow 1972 was killed several years ago doing a show, and Ormond Hayden-Bailee was killed several years ago. Both were in the old IFPF as charter members. Hoof Proudfoot dug a hole at Duxford with a P38 doing a double roll. Another first rate display pilot gone. The list gets larger every year it seems. eah, I saw Proubfoot display that -38 and I have to say I was less than impressed. Loops were done with precious little room and he was doing fairly low rolls pointed right at the crowd. This was at the 50th anniv of D-day so was June 1994, about a year before he crashed it. I also recently saw that RN guy who keeps crashing airplanes display a Skyraider. To be fair he didn;t get as low as I've seen him do in the past, but still, it all just didn;t look right and I thought it was all kind of pointless, especailly since the airplane was fairly ugly anyway! Bertie First lesson 101 for display flying; The crowd is split between those who don't appreciate the difference between 500 feet and 50 feet, and those who do appreciate the difference are the ones you don't need to please. -- Dudley Henriques |
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