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Video (from far away and very grainy) of the accident

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8586114.stm

Says the pilot in hospital dislocated his shoulder (probably the ejection or landing) but yes I count that as a slight accident.. Any landing you walk away from is a good landing whether you be in the plane or not at the time of touching the ground :D

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Latest from the red arrow's website naming the two pilots

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A380 first incident????

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/8598450.stm

Just love the tail mounted camera which must be fed to all the seats..

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A few dates for you:

16th May: Imperial War museum, Duxford: Spring Airshow

30th May: Bruntingthorpe Museum open day.
All serviceable aircraft will be performing fast taxi runs.

3rd/4th July: Royal Airforce Waddington Airshow

10th/11th July: Imperial War museum, Duxford: Flying Legends & classics of flight.

24/25th July: Farnborough International Airshow

12/13th August: Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival

4th/15th Septmeber: Imperial War museum, Duxford: The Battle of Britain Airshow



More on the upcoming shows here:

http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.24060

http://www.lowestoftairfestival.co.uk/

http://www.waddingtonairshow.co.uk/

Quite a list there and I'm sure there are a few more too. Let's hope the weather is good!


halcyon.

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I reckon a few of those seats were ruined :D

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There's been a crash during thursdays Red Bull Air Race practice session in Perth, Australia. The pilot Brazilian Adilson Kindelmann is fine after a very speedy recovery by the emergency crews :clap:

Video here >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/8622390.stm
Official Statement here >> http://www.redbullairrace.com/cs/Sat...=1238611393596

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With not much to spot at the moment just having a browse through the archives. Couple of odd paint jobs (or lack of) spotted at Manchester a while ago.

They hadn't got around to painting the Airbus yet. Not sure where it was heading to, think it was Thomas Cook. (sorry about the Gulfstream wing, wish they'd park them somewhere else out of the way)

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Never really worked out what was going on with the Cathay freight paint scheme. Someone went mad with the paint stripper on the 747F and just put a few stickers on it ;)

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Nice photos Uncle Peter!


Flights around the world over a 24 hour period:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1US_4uf4YE

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Don't forget AeroExpo http://www.expo.aero/london/ at Wycombe Air Park, I've booked my landing slot already.

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How to land a twin prop without landing gear

This pilot demonstrates an absolutely picture-perfect gear-up landing, caught on tape by the media

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjFg5uEIszA

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That's quite an old vid that one..

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Anyone want a flight manual for a SR-71 Blackbird?

No problem ;)

http://jalopnik.com/5532546/how-to-f...kbird/gallery/

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And along the same lines, if you happen to pick up a Vulcan Bomber at a car boot, you'll be needing one of these.

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price ? ?.

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Thanks for that. I've got one sat outside in the garage but as you can see there were some bits left over when we tried to put the engines back.

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A Lancaster bomber is to visit Manchester for the AVRO Centenary on 16 May.
LINK