June 24, 2011
Wandering Chipmunk
Following an Annual Inspection, a Chipmunk was being taxied from the maintenance organisation to the flying club when difficulty was experienced in maintaining directional control...
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Pilot, Flying
June 24, 2011
Gear fatigue
Towards the end of its landing run on its ninth glider-towing flight of the day, a Morane Saulnier Rallye 180T’s nose wheel leg collapsed...
June 24, 2011
Gear-up landing
The pilot of the Cherokee Lance was downwind for a third successive touch-and go landing. His usual practice was to lower the landing gear when abeam the runway...
June 24, 2011
Below minimums VFR arrival
An American-registered Bonanza 36 appeared out of the cloud over White Waltham at high speed before allegedly pulling up, turning left at the end of Rwy 03 and re-entering cloud...
June 24, 2011
Flitzer flipped
A Staaken Z-21 Flitzer homebuilt biplane was on approach to RAF Lossiemouth’s Rwy 05, its pilot believing from looking at the windsock, that the surface wind was...
June 24, 2011
Super Cub blew tyre
The Super Cub’s approach to Eshott’s Rwy 01was normal. After touchdown the aircraft decelerated suddenly, veering to the right and tipping onto its nose before...
June 24, 2011
Mustang’s mysterious power loss
The P-51DMustangwas part of a large number of war birds that had been flying in close formation at a Duxford airshow and then broke into the...
June 24, 2011
Roads Make Poor Runways . . .
It could only happen in California. An incident that would stretch credibility in a movie...
June 24, 2011
Cow vs Tiger
Shortly after takeoff, when the Tiger Moth was at an altitude of about 200 feet, engine speed dropped to idle. The pilot lowered the nose to...
June 24, 2011
Wrong strip, high sink
The pilot of the Jabiru SK planned to fly from his Suffolk base to a 600-metre-long private strip one mile west of Tibenham aerodrome in...
June 24, 2011
Turbulent tripped up by turbulence
Three Tiger Club Rollason Turbulents were practicing a ‘limbo’ act at Headcorn, making a series of passes at about five feet under a string of bunting held between two poles placed some 50 feet north…
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