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RNHF Seafury crash landing at Culdrose.

Discussion in 'Everything Else Heritage' started by Martin Perry, Jul 31, 2014.

  1. Martin Perry

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    Rather a shame, beautiful aircraft, but at least the pilot walked away;
    http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2014-07-31/sea-fury-makes-emergency-landing-at-culdrose/
     
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    Third one they've lost but happily in each case the pilot was unscathed.
     
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    This one does not look like a write-off ( fingers crossed)
     
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    Reports elsewhere that the gear was lowered twice.

     
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    Had the undercarrage not locked when it was lowered? or was there just not enough time? the landing gear seemed to have been lowered at the very last moment but well done to the pilot to bring it down to a controlled emergency landing lets hope the damage isnt too severe, after all having lost 2 sea furies the RNHF cant have that many spare airframes to rebuild it from, i would assume that the engine had a problem, are the engines known to have any vices? sleeve valves etc
     
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    Bristol Centaurus radial. Yes, it has sleeve valves, but I don't know anything about the reliability of that model.

    Hopefully they can get it flying again, great plane.
     
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    these old war birds seem to be quite robust, it swung on contact and ended up on grass, so hopefully should be repairable the way the undercarrage went would seem to be a hydralic problem, unfortunatly the other 2 sea furies lost by the RNHF also suffered engine/ hydralic failure i just hope that there is no problem found that grounds any other flying sea furies fitted with the centurus 18 engine.
     
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    From Flyer magazine forum

     
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    At least the pilots are unhurt , looking at the pictures, the engine appears to have broken away from the front bulkhead, the damage looks quite severe,
    When the Royal naval historic flight was part of the navy, i would imagine that there must have been a way to finance repairs etc, but now they are a private concern, does that make it harder to keep things flying and to repair aircraft when they do have a prang like this?
     
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    doesn't look good, I will be very surprised if that airframe hasn't sustained serious structural damage, at what point do you say, its too large a job to restore it to flying condition A private collector may well buy it and rebuild it, but i can't see Navy heritage doing so.
     
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