And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
1 - FLIGHT PROCEDURE On the day of the accident, the pilot flew a Hawker Sea Fury aircraft from Dijon Darois aerodrome (21) to Longuyon - Villette aerodrome, in the company of a friend who performs the flight aboard a Spitfire, a single-seat fighter of the second world war. They explain that the purpose of this flight is to have lunch on the aerodrome with the president of the "Lorraine Borders" flying club, which organizes that day an open house for the flying club. For the return flight to Dijon, pilots change planes. The pilot of the accident must then perform his first flight on Spitfire, while his friend will fly in Sea Fury. He performs the pre-flight inspection, starts the engine and performs the engine tests without notice an anomaly. He entered and went up runway 28, lined up and then started take-off roll. He explains that when he puts the plane in line from flight, he looks at the dashboard to increase the power to 6 boost (2). When he look outside again, the plane has started to tip forward, the propeller is touching the ground then the plane passes on its back. Pieces of propeller blades are thrown into the public and two people are injured. The staff in charge of the security of the open day, followed by members of the public, immediately walked over to the plane to rescue the pilot. Unable to extract it from the cockpit, he appealed to the public to help lift the plane. Once the pilot has been taken care of by the organization's medical staff, a fire extinguisher was used on the aircraft as a precaution.
So it IS a Spitfire! It's the "curved" front edge of the wing that gave it away. Most planes of that era the front edge is fairly straight. You can watch the vid of the crash at this link - it never really got off the ground.
Spitfire?
ReplyDeleteThat's gonna leave a mark.
I also went digging and found :
ReplyDelete1 - FLIGHT PROCEDURE
On the day of the accident, the pilot flew a Hawker Sea Fury aircraft from
Dijon Darois aerodrome (21) to Longuyon - Villette aerodrome,
in the company of a friend who performs the flight aboard a Spitfire, a single-seat fighter
of the second world war. They explain that the purpose of this flight is to have lunch
on the aerodrome with the president of the "Lorraine Borders" flying club, which organizes
that day an open house for the flying club. For the return flight to Dijon,
pilots change planes. The pilot of the accident must then perform his first
flight on Spitfire, while his friend will fly in Sea Fury.
He performs the pre-flight inspection, starts the engine and performs the engine tests without
notice an anomaly. He entered and went up runway 28, lined up and then started
take-off roll. He explains that when he puts the plane in line from
flight, he looks at the dashboard to increase the power to 6 boost (2). When he
look outside again, the plane has started to tip forward, the propeller is touching
the ground then the plane passes on its back. Pieces of propeller blades are thrown into
the public and two people are injured.
The staff in charge of the security of the open day, followed by
members of the public, immediately walked over to the plane to rescue the pilot.
Unable to extract it from the cockpit, he appealed to the public to help lift
the plane. Once the pilot has been taken care of by the organization's medical staff,
a fire extinguisher was used on the aircraft as a precaution.
So it IS a Spitfire! It's the "curved" front edge of the wing that gave it away. Most planes of that era the front edge is fairly straight. You can watch the vid of the crash at this link - it never really got off the ground.
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Painful. That's like watching Krusty use "Action Comics No 1" to light his cigar.
ReplyDeleteI know that feeling but on a smaller scale...OOOooo...
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