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OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => General => Topic started by: Dazzler on August 22, 2015, 22:44:36
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I love air shows but always the risk of something like this happening.
7 dead and about 14 others injured apparently. The pilot still alive at the moment. He will feel very guilty and have lots of questions to answer I'm guessing. :(
RIP those who died.
:link: Seven confirmed dead after Shoreham plane crash - Channel 4 News (http://www.channel4.com/news/seven-confirmed-dead-after-shoreham-plane-crash)
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Unfortunately the police expect to find more bodies amongst the burnt out wreckage.
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The problem with the pilot surviving is that they will never find out what actually happened.
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Hawker_hunter_t7_blue_diamond_in_planform_arp.jpg)
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Latest.............
Shoreham air disaster: Jet struggled to take-off on doomed final flight
Video footage has emerged showing the Hawker Hunter plane that crashed in Shoreham appearing to have trouble getting off the ground.
:link: Shoreham air disaster: Jet struggled to take-off on doomed final flight - BT (http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/shoreham-air-disaster-jet-struggled-to-take-off-on-doomed-final-flight-11364000046457)
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.. and 11 dead now. :blubber:
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My son - who is a B.A captain - has flown with the poor guy a few times, but not enough to claim they were friends. He says he was a well respected and first class pilot.
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My son - who is a B.A captain - has flown with the poor guy a few times, but not enough to claim they were friends. He says he was a well respected and first class pilot.
Gee, it sure is a small world! I wouldn't swap places with him (well maybe at 4am in the morning I would) :undecided:
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Unfortunately most pilots who are killed in these types of accidents are reported to be "one of the best" by their family and friends. Alan's son probably knows the saying, "There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are never any old bold pilots."
To me the video showed nothing unusual. The Macchi jet trainer formerly used by the RAAF used to use that takeoff profile. The reasoning was that it wanted to get to speed first, then height. The ejection seat in the Macchi wasn't a modern one and therefore wasn't "zero/zero", that is, it wouldn't work on the ground with no speed. From memory it needed about 120 knots to be effective at zero feet.
Maybe instead of interviewing a professional lecturer, the journalist should have interviewed a former or current pilot of that aircraft type.
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Maybe instead of interviewing a professional lecturer, the journalist should have interviewed a former or current pilot of that aircraft type.
But then the reporter might not get the desired sensationalist view! :crazy1: