Swedish Aviation 100 Years

[Sweper]

2010 Swedish aviation calebrate 100 years with spectular airshows around Sweden.

It all started with Carl Cederstrom.

http://www.earlyaviators.com/ecederst.htm

Aviation history in short: http://www.flyghistoria.org/links_swedishaviation.htm

The closest airshows from where I live:

http://www.aeroseum.se/english/goteborgaeroshow/aircraft.html will propably miss this one due to work (

This one I will definitely wisit (I hope):

http://www.ljungbyhedflygshow.se/program.php Ljungbyhed is one of the oldest airfields in the world. They been flying there since 1910

Like to join me there Jedi!?

[Jediteo]

Ljungbyhed? Sure, if I can I will. Sounds like a lot of fun. My dad probably would like to come along, he hasn't seen a Draken since he used to work on them in the 70's.

Might be able to get the Säve one, quite a bit to drive though.

[Sweper]

Ljungbyhed? Sure, if I can I will. Sounds like a lot of fun. My dad probably would like to come along, he hasn't seen a Draken since he used to work on them in the 70's.

Might be able to get the Säve one, quite a bit to drive though.

Swedish pilot from Ljungbyhed dies when trying to land his Supermarine Spitfire MkXVIII in Norway. Seems to be a faulty undercarrige. A photographer noticed that the left gear was´nt fully retracted when the Spit left Stockholm earlier that day.

On this pic thogh it looks like both wheels are fully out.

[Kimosabi]

Witnesses did report that the aircraft veered to the left after touchdown so it could well have been som problems with that left gear. Depends on when he saw that left gear hangin though since both gears rarely raised 100% simoultaneously.

Another witness said that he touched down very long, so long he was wondering if he'd break off and go around.

[Sweper]

Bertil Gerhardt was 68 years old. He had over 31000 hours in the air together with 39 years in the Swedish Airforce. Searched his name on Youtube and he flew all kind of aircraft, including the Spit and a P-51 on airshows.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bertil+Gerhardt&aq=f

RIP!

[Jediteo]

Indeed RIP, a legend in the flying community.

[Kimosabi]

Considering this guys rep sheet I'd bet my head it was mechanical failure.

R.I.P

~S~