Duxford Landing

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2012 3:09 pm

I do believe this is Duxford? Ive never seen this before until 2 days ago but I had seen the footage of Sally B hitting the same rise in the runway. For the UK members, is this marked better since these two events???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XuMylC7gSc

BTW, I am no Mustang expert but hats off to the PIC for NOT pushing the throttle forward for the Go-A-Round.

JohnTerrell · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2012 3:22 pm

Jeff, that was indeed shot at Duxford, at the Flying Legends show in 2008. The video was being shot for the 'Flying Machines TV' DVD of the show, when Miss Helen experienced engine trouble during the approach. If I recall correctly, the engine was losing power quite a bit, and there was not much the pilot could do but to land it as soon as possible. He did an amazing job saving the aircraft after it hit the incline. I also seem to recall, that when the pilot would try advancing the throttle during the approach, the engine got worse, so if he did try to come up on the power, nothing good would have come from it, with the engine likely cutting out altogether. The aircraft has been flying again since last year.

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2012 3:25 pm

JohnTerrell wrote:

Jeff, that was indeed shot at Duxford, at the Flying Legends show in 2008. The video was being shot for the 'Flying Machines TV' DVD of the show, when Miss Helen experienced engine trouble during the approach. If I recall correctly, the engine was losing power quite a bit, and there was not much the pilot could do but to land it as soon as possible. He did an amazing job saving the aircraft after it hit the incline. The aircraft has been flying again since last year.

Thanks on the update and the full story. I thought I could hear the engine stumble a bit but hey what do I know, I am a round engine guy and all those V's sound like that.

bipe215 · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2012 3:42 pm

Accident report here:

http://www.crazyhorseap.be/Mustangs/Mus ... Report.pdf

Steve

TROJANII · **Joined:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:18 pm **Posts:** 178

They ever find out what the engine issue was?

Chappie · **Joined:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 am **Posts:** 987

Holy crap! That sent chills up my spine! First thing I noticed on the approach was the puff of smoke when he tried to give it some throttle. God bless North American for building a tough airplane.

Chappie

ZRX61 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:16 am **Posts:** 2309

I think they said the mags crapped out.

andyman64 · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2012 5:34 pm

how do both mags crap out at once isn,t that like getting hit by lightning twice in the same day!!they say any landing you can walk away from is a good one and i bet the pilot was walking funny with squishey stuff in his drawers after that landing!!!

Wildchild · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2012 7:51 pm

Duxford needs to hire new landscapers

RAMC181 · **Posted:** Fri May 04, 2012 8:35 pm

As noted in the AAIB report linked to earlier, the a/c first landed a few hundred feet short of the threshold of the well marked grass runway 24, which runs alongside the concrete one, and bounced up when it ran up against the concrete taxiway that leads to the concrete runway.

No additional markers or landscaping required surely.

As is, well done to the pilot for managing to clear the airfield boundary under those conditions.

PB

Jeff H · **Joined:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:33 pm **Posts:** 140

Now if that is not a 10 on the pucker factor scale then I do not know what is. Tough bird, I was waiting for the gear to shear right off.

Cheers,

Jeff :spit

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