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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: PhilRich on 07 January 2013, 18:09:00
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Just been on Sky News. Spitfire crashed on landing at East Midlands Airport. No further news yet :(
Update: Seems the undercart collapsed, Pilot Ok plane not a write off! :y
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Media trying to make mountain from molehill... ...and you bit :P
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Shoot the pilot and save the Spit :y
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Agree with TB they even closed the airport rather than just move it from the runway, which I suppose wouldn't take much effort to lift it onto a low loader:( :( :(
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I guess the runway needs to be checked...
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Media trying to make mountain from molehill... ...and you bit :P
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I couldn't give a toss how the Media portray it TB, There aren't that many Spits left in full flying condition and the loss of even one would be a damn shame. Hence my interest and concern ;)
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There aren't that many Spits left in full flying condition and the loss of even one would be a damn shame.
Indeed :y
Although, hopefully, there will be a few more than can be made airworthy, either directly, or via parts, from those that (hopefully) will be dug up :D
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Diverted to east Midlands due to under carriage fault, airport closed whilst debris is cleared and rain way checked (don't want a bit of spit being ingested by a Ryanair flight......well actually!)
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I was going to say why not divert to Tollerton but I don't suppose they have the same emergency facilities
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Correction, it was the Rolls Royce one which is based at EMA
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Correction, it was the Rolls Royce one which is based at EMA
Yes, it was taxi-ing back to it's hanger when the undercarriage collapsed. It has just returned after extensive refurbishment at Duxford, and was an high flying air reconnaissence model stripped of armaments.
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Correction, it was the Rolls Royce one which is based at EMA
Yes, it was taxi-ing back to it's hanger when the undercarriage collapsed. It has just returned after extensive refurbishment at Duxford, and was an high flying air reconnaissence model stripped of armaments.
Hopefully not a great deal of heavy damage then? though heaven knows it will still cost a reasonable lottery win to get the old girl in the air again. I wonder who will end up carrying the can for it when the dust settles & blame apportioned etc. :-\
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I can just see those RAF aircraft engineers and fitters in 1940 patching them up, and returning the kites to action the next day when possible, which was a critical matter.
How long will in take the modern chaps / ladies to get this one back flying? ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Just read in today's Daily Telegraph that this indeed was the Rolls Royce Spitfire PS853, a MK 19 no less.
The highly informative Rolls Royce web site for this plane is worth a read:
http://www.rolls-royce.com/about/heritage/news_articles/article_spitfire.jsp
explains it was an unarmed, high altitude version, of a 79 strong batch, used by the Central Photographic Reconnaissance Unit at RAF Benson in 1945, later moving to Holland and Belgium to provide photographic reconnaissance of German V1 and V2 launch sites.
Reports so far reckon no major damage has been done, and one would suspect that RR will make sure it is fully restored. Apparently PS853 was given it's first major overhaul in 2010 after 65 years, and 2300 hours service. 8) 8)
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Just read in today's Daily Telegraph that this indeed was the Rolls Royce Spitfire PS853, a MK 19 no less.
The highly informative Rolls Royce web site for this plane is worth a read:
http://www.rolls-royce.com/about/heritage/news_articles/article_spitfire.jsp
explains it was an unarmed, high altitude version, of a 79 strong batch, used by the Central Photographic Reconnaissance Unit at RAF Benson in 1945, later moving to Holland and Belgium to provide photographic reconnaissance of German V1 and V2 launch sites.
Reports so far reckon no major damage has been done, and one would suspect that RR will make sure it is fully restored. Apparently PS853 was given it's first major overhaul in 2010 after 65 years, and 2300 hours service. 8) 8)
Well done Lizzie, and interesting page on the RR website. :y
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Certainly needs a new prop
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So ... wonderfully accurate reporting again ....
Yesterdays headlines ... "Spitfire's undercarriage collapses on approach to landing - airport closed" - which was always going to be a tad difficult as on the "approach to landing" the undercarriage is many feet off the ground with no load thereon ....
Actual truth ... Spitfire's undercarriage collapses on taxi in after landing - taxiway closed"
but which one sells more papers ??? Or is that the cynic in me ??
and as an aside .. would someone kindly tell the Telegraph that the Spitfire doesn't have a "front wheel" ... (looks for shaking head smiley .... :( )
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Lets not let the truth get in the way of a good story eh Entwood?? ;D ;D ;D
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potemtially 60 more of these awesome planes to be dug up in burma.
cant wait for the documentary on this when its all done
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Listening to the news last night it would seem that their potential condition could be greatly exaggerated, having been buried in a monsoon area likely to flood. :(
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Did I hear that they had got the first one out of the ground now? Talk of a total of 140 all over Burma?
Keith B
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Did I hear that they had got the first one out of the ground now? Talk of a total of 140 all over Burma?
Keith B
Blimey!! :o :o :o :o The story started at about 30! ::) ::) :D :D :D
Good if true, but Cleggy is right that there is nothing certain about their condition ;)
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I think for me the story is extra interesting as my Pap fought in Burma and got the Burma Star.
Re, the condition.... I agreethe condition is likely to be exagerrated. they said ''they were put in waterproof containers and all parts were greased to stop them corroding''. errrrm, unless youre specifically burying something to be a time capsule would you do this? lol
i cant explain how much i love stuff like this. i hope they get them dug up asap :y
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I find a lot of the Reporting on this 'find' & others, more than mildly amusing with phrases like: ' The War was over, everyone wanted to go back home , nobody wanted anything and so it was just buried'!!!!!
Any ex Serviceman, especially those with responsibility for W.D. Stores & Equipment knows that 'The Powers that Be' wanted to know the back end of a fart, where it had come from & where it was going where Government Issue was concerned! Getting anything 'written off' was a bloody nightmare even when the 'loss' was totally justifyable and accounted for! :D ;D
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I DONT GET WHY THEY WRAPPED THEM IN WAX PAPER AND GREASED ALL THE PARTS IF TYHEY WEre burying them to get rid of them???
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oops, soz for capitals (must lose weight on fingers :D