bad weekend for airshows.....

[skyhawka4m]

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/small_plane_crashes_at_greenwo.html

[Felixthreeone]

Wow...that is terrible news. I can't imagine putting an L-39 down at greenwood lake..I had a tough enough time with the Cirrus!! Even the DA-20 seemed to float a bit going in there....

[Spad54]

A real bad week!

This is about the clearest video to come up thus far.

http://www.flyingfilm.co.uk/

Glad they all got out, thats the main thing.

Read this topic online here:

http://forums.matronics.com/<wbr>viewtopic.php?p=346025#346025 (http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=346025#346025)

[MarkH]

Glad they all got out, thats the main thing.

That Duxford incident - two awesome saves, each in its own way! I hope if the time comes I can think as quickly and calmly as that P-51 pilot.

[stansdds]

Damn. :frown:

[jankees]

and then I found this:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Fokker-Dr-1-replica/1949320/M/

[ryanbatc]

How could you be unhurt from that?!?!? WOW!

[Bomber_12th]

Yep, there were also two crashes that took place at the Geneseo airshow over the weekend - one was an arriving Mooney, that seemed to stall too early when landing, and came down quite hard, spinning around - and the replica Fokker Dr.1, pictured in Jan Kees' post, came down in a corn field after its engine quit during a dogfight sequence in the show itself. In both cases, thankfully all pilots/passengers came away without surious injuries!

At the Duxford show on Sunday, a very accurate replica Fokker Dr.1, also tipped up on its nose, while landing, caused by what some people are saying was prop wake-turbulence from aircraft that had just taken off. Thankfully it was a very minor incident, with only repairable-damage being done to the aircraft, and the pilot was un-injured.

Here is a video from a news-report on the Mustang/Skyraider incident that took place at Duxford on Sunday, with an interview with Rob Davies, who was piloting the Mustang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLQsJS7zQOM&feature=youtu.be

[AndyE1976]

Does anyone know what damage was done to the Mustang just from the collision? From the video it seems to come out of it better than the Skyraider.


Glad everyone got out of it ok though.

[DarrenL]

Does anyone know what damage was done to the Mustang just from the collision? From the video it seems to come out of it better than the Skyraider.


Mustang photo here - http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=1771885&postcount=81


There was also a B-25 go down in France - http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=74719

No injuries not too much damage by the looks of things.

[Bomber_12th]

Andy, the area of the Mustang that was affected, is right where the elevator cables, and the lower fuselage longerons are. If the elevator cables were cut, which they very well were by the area of damage, there would of course be no elevator control. Also, if the longerons were bent from the impact, it would have tweaked the rear fuselage/tail, and loosened the control cables to the elevator/tail surfaces, making them ineffective even if they weren't cut.

Darren - unfortunately the damage to the B-25 that had the forced landing in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>, earlier this year, is extensive, with the aircraft requiring a complete tear-down to minimal parts, before any rebuild/restoration work can begin. For example, the fuselage is bent and actually broken at several areas. Some have stated that by the looks of the aircraft, it would be better to part it out, into another B-25 project restoration, then try and rebuild what's simply there.

[MarkH]

Does anyone know what damage was done to the Mustang just from the collision? From the video it seems to come out of it better than the Skyraider.
Looking at how quickly he popped the canopy, he wasn't waiting around to find out!

[AndyE1976]

Andy, the area of the Mustang that was affected, is right where the elevator cables, and the lower fuselage longerons are. If the elevator cables were cut, which they very well were by the area of damage, there would of course be no elevator control. Also, if the longerons were bent from the impact, it would have tweaked the rear fuselage/tail, and loosened the control cables to the elevator/tail surfaces, making them ineffective even if they weren't cut.

I figured it was something like that, someone with 15 years flying P-51's doesn't jump without reason. Shame about the aircraft, but good to see the pilot around to tell the story.