Hurricane down!
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Hurricane down!
On Sunday afternoon, during the second day of the aviation day in Cheb a World War II era Hawker Hurricane Mk. IV crashed into a house during it’s display.
RIP ...
https://www.europeanairshows.co.uk/n...on-day-in-cheb
RIP ...
https://www.europeanairshows.co.uk/n...on-day-in-cheb
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Video at the link below which shows the manoeuvre that preceded the crash - possibly a barrel roll or maybe a wingover, looks like wing rock right at the end? Engine sounds to have been healthy as far as I can tell.
What a sad thing to happen...
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/281539
What a sad thing to happen...
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/281539
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The video is useful in showing that the aeroplane was pointed very nearly straight down, after nearly completing something like a off axis loop. As has happened too many times before, the hard pull up at a low altitude did not result in recovery from the dive.
We don't need to see any aeroplane crashed, but much less so an antique of such historical importance! As a wise old friend told me after he saw me do something stupid overhead: "No one ever died flying a normal circuit!".
We don't need to see any aeroplane crashed, but much less so an antique of such historical importance! As a wise old friend told me after he saw me do something stupid overhead: "No one ever died flying a normal circuit!".
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Very sad, both the loss of the pilot and a fine aeroplane. Looking at the first video which 'sablatnic' posted (thank you), there appear to have been several nice passes with wingovers to reposition for another run. The last manoeuvre seemed to me to start upwards as if for a wingover but was then flown to starboard, not port. I wonder if the pilot momentarily lost orientation, started the wingover in the wrong direction for that pass, then looking in realised he would end up behind the presentation and crowd line. If so an attempt to recover the position by tightening the wingover and reef it around just a wee bit too tight might cause wingrock and the loss of control seen.
Horrible to see - and so easy to visualise happening, even in the much simpler machines I fly, but then I have no idea how a Hurricane reacts to overpulling at lowish speed.
Horrible to see - and so easy to visualise happening, even in the much simpler machines I fly, but then I have no idea how a Hurricane reacts to overpulling at lowish speed.
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In 1989 it was still in Doug Arnold's Warbirds of GB storage unit at Biggin Hill, after having been moved from his unit at Blackbushe where it had been since he recovered the derelict remains from a kibbutz in Israel in 1983(?)
TFC acquired it in 1991, and then set about restoring it. It was the only Mk.IV flying and had flown with 6 Sqn, the famous Flying Can-Openers during WW2 IIRC.
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Ten years too early, most likely 1999. I think it's first post restoration flight was 2000.
In 1989 it was still in Doug Arnold's Warbirds of GB storage unit at Biggin Hill, after having been moved from his unit at Blackbushe where it had been since he recovered the derelict remains from a kibbutz in Israel in 1983(?)
TFC acquired it in 1991, and then set about restoring it. It was the only Mk.IV flying and had flown with 6 Sqn, the famous Flying Can-Openers during WW2 IIRC.
In 1989 it was still in Doug Arnold's Warbirds of GB storage unit at Biggin Hill, after having been moved from his unit at Blackbushe where it had been since he recovered the derelict remains from a kibbutz in Israel in 1983(?)
TFC acquired it in 1991, and then set about restoring it. It was the only Mk.IV flying and had flown with 6 Sqn, the famous Flying Can-Openers during WW2 IIRC.
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Return to flight and then be lost in accidents.
Hopefully something can be rescued and returned to flight.
I still have my great grand father's axe. My grandfather replaced the blade, and my dad replaced the handle. At what point does doing that make sense? There should at least be half of the original material for it to keep the original number.
My son lives in Czechia told me about this on Sunday as it was a major new item there. The Czechs are extremely proud of their Battle of Britain pilots and the contribution they made. Equally they like to make it clear that they were not Polish although they tended to be lumped together with their more numerous neighbours .
They have a several airshows in the country - a couple are especially interesting because many of their heritage types are from the eastern bloc alongside modern military kit and relative rarities. In fact his local airfield just held a European AN2 meet with quite a gathering of these extraordinarily practical and versatile aircraft which appear to take off at about 30mph (illusory of course) have a party trick of flying backwards due to their amazing slow flying capability, and remain very popular skydiving aircraft
They have a several airshows in the country - a couple are especially interesting because many of their heritage types are from the eastern bloc alongside modern military kit and relative rarities. In fact his local airfield just held a European AN2 meet with quite a gathering of these extraordinarily practical and versatile aircraft which appear to take off at about 30mph (illusory of course) have a party trick of flying backwards due to their amazing slow flying capability, and remain very popular skydiving aircraft
Hawker Restorations would have to supply the tube material, and I think they are now down to having only enough for a couple more full builds from info I saw posted elsewhere, and these builds may well be already allocated, so I suspect that it won't get 'recreated'. G-HURR which fatally dived into the ground from a similar height at Shoreham in 2007 was never re-built from the wrecked parts of that.
I understand there is a bit of a shortage of main spars and they are unlikely to make any more due to the alloy used no longer being produced.
