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simple 'tug-outs' (parachute just to pull out
LAPES...Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System...done between four and twenty feet off the ground. There should have been no trucks or anything else down range of that aircraft. I'll bet the DZ controller hung for that. An avoidable fatality...? Stand by for the high jump...
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01-24-2017 12:14 PM
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I take the point Jim but the DZ part of the ex was far enough away and sightly to the left of the flight path. It was just the height that he should have been at (the pilot/plane, not the truckie!) that caused the repercussions at the subsequent hearings. I seem to recall that very little came of it publicity wise due to the truly gruesome nature of it all
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the DZ part of the ex was far enough away and sightly to the left of the flight path
Seen...
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I have a few stories...16,000lbs of defensive stores sliding down the airstrip until it hits a groove and changes course... Same thing, until it hits a cross ditch and does endos, throwing barbed wire rolls like cannonballs. Concertina wire going down the strip like giant slinkies(remember those?)...corrugated steel flying like frizbies... And the best was the steel fence pickets that looked like javelins going through the air... The rest got racetracks for a bit until cleanup.
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I think the Russians also tried drogue shooting AFV's out of a plane at height on a semi controlled vertical decent and when in proximity to the ground fired rockets to arrest the drop so it landed was a bit chaotic. But that is how they land their Soyuz capsules and with the new returning rockets now in vogue one can launch ICBM's get the warheads underway the rocket then comes back for another payload....recycling!
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I think vertical and low sum up two recent aircraft crashes here in OZ.
The first one you should have seen on TV where a floatplane lost power on a banking manouver and sideslipped into the drink in WA.
The most recent was yesterday when a Corsair, practicing for this weekends Airshow in Rutherford, NSW came down belly first.........not a lot of damage, but I guess that's it for her for awhile. Not many Corsair parts here in OZ.
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Preliminary statement by one of the pilots friends was that he did not have allot of experience with that plane only just having picked it a a while ago also he had only just been given the clearance from CASA to land on the river, from the footage the other pilot whom previously owned the plane said that the turn was very low, low speed and against the wind. The port wing lost lift due to the angle of attack stalled and the plane went in with tragic consequences for the 2 souls on board. It was not nice to see that over and over again on the news so changed channel the only grace was it did not plough into the spectator fleet. Hope the Corsair pilot is ok and the bird is soon in the air again do you know what the cause was Muffet
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I take the point Jim but the DZ part of the ex was far enough away and sightly to the left of the flight path. It was just the height that he should have been at (the pilot/plane, not the truckie!) that caused the repercussions at the subsequent hearings. I seem to recall that very little came of it publicity wise due to the truly gruesome nature of it all
I remember that one Peter, a grim accident, as I recall it happened at the old airfield South Cerney, it's an Army mustering point for RAF Brize Norton these days.
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This was at Abingdon Clarkie.........
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