BluBear

I was there, along with Fenrir. It was a fantastic show. One of the best in years. Breathtaking at times and for me personally, it was an all round better show than Flying Legends '10 (not usually the case). The Spitfire Finale gave me shivers.

That is sad news, but he had a 'good innings' as we would say here in Blighty. Rest in Peace Sir. You were an admirable leader, a soldiers soldier and without doubt a one of a kind unassuming hero. I had the enormous privilage of meeting Buck Compton, Don Malarkey, Ed Tipper and Brad Freeman at Flying Legends in 2009, remarkable chaps.

http://www.youtube.com/user/HAFUVideo?feature=mhum#p/u/0/EJQThtB1YTI

If you're interested here is the official report into the matter which explains things much better than I can. http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/North%20American%20P-51D-20%20Mustang,%20G-BIXL%2012-08.pdf

@kimo Not exactly, it is operated with the respect and consideration expected of such an exhibit of history by the very experienced owners of these aircraft. The engine troubles never manifested themselves on the ground, at some point you have to air test if no problems are found on terra firma. This was done during the day on the Sunday as I understand after working on it overnight which revealed no obvious faults. As I recall the flight test during the day was successful, however the pilot started experiencing rough running during formation flying during the show. As it transpires the problem was associated with quick adjustment of throttle settings (keeping in formation) and of course during landing when the power is worked often. As you can see the Merlin finaly gave up the ghost after a power adjustment short of the threshold. An unfortunate incident definitely, but not I believe as a result of negligence on the part of the operator! One of those things. At the least no one was hurt and the aircraft was in one piece!

Ah, the good old comma. Makes quite a difference sometimes!

I think you may be getting confused with the ex-duxford P-51C 'Princess Elizabeth' mate. She is now stateside and very much Merlin powered. Miss Helen is a D model and incidentally a lot of the airframe is genuinely the original Miss Helen that flew with the 352nd FG from Bodney. This incident happened at the end of the show Sunday, having had engine problems all weekend. (Deadstick on landing roll Saturday)

At Flying Legends Duxford 2008 one of the P-51s had a little incident: Clicky Here I was at the other end of the field at the time but saw it just at the end of it's 'arrival'! Quite a hairy situation in which the pilot involved shows cool calm skill in making the best of a bad situation. Note: The ramp is in fact the rise to the hard taxi-way, the engine quit before the threshold and the Mustang doesn't glide that far without the fan a' spinnin!

Nice one chaps, there's some great shots in there! Should have January available for d/l tonight or tomorrow.

Crap. Thanks for the heads up mate. Will get the old man to check his serial, when it arrives!

Happy Christmas fellow Danger Dogz!!! Eat, Drink and be Merry! Regards, The big blue bear-like one

Just bumping this guys to let you know today was supposed to be the cut off for recieving screenies for the calendar. However, as it's Christmas I probably won't get round to finishing it till next week so, see this as an extension! Get your print screen button working and lets see some classy danger dogz material for the cause!

About to d/l myself, a welcome xmas present indeed! :Vuvuzela:

I wish I could 'un-see' something. Now i'm going to go to bed with that image in my head, thanks Arthur!!

This subject makes me rather sad, i've always loved the Harrier and as most of you know it is being axed from British military service by the end of this year. A well known uk based airshow review site has put together this wonderful tribute with a montage of stunning images from the many years we operated the type. Click here to see the UKAR Harrier tribute Goodbye Harrier, we will miss you.

Hmmm, i'm not sure mate. That is strange. I've had no trouble hosting it on my own client machine over the last few weeks and can spawn at all red bases fine. It was created on my UP2.01 installation, which is all that I use now. I'm not very clued up on dedicated server requirements, is there something I need to add in the mission, or code? Could it be something like your server needs to run the UP updater? Maybe there are some slight differences between our versions?

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