HU One down at Shoreham 17:16 HRS
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HU One down at Shoreham 17:16 HRS
Mrs Hobby has just told me that a WWII acft crashed today at Shoreham. Newsflash on BBC website. I have no details.
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'My Auntie Mabel told me I'd make a great soldier, though I don't know how 30 years working in a biscuit factory had qualified her to make that judgement.....' Eddie Nugent
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Old sailors never die.. they just smell that way!
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You could see him thinking "Bleedin'pilots,don't know nuffin.All glammer" He's probably right.
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The sky was full of Merlins and Griffons - 6 Spitfires, 2 Hurricanes and a Buchon with a couple of Bf108s making up the numbers. it was great fun until something to the West caught my eye and I looked across the runway to be greeted with a never-to-be-forgotten sight of a Hurricane in a vertical dive. Fortunately for me, the actual impact was behind the tree-line and for a second or two as there was no noise or smoke, I thought that the impossible had happened and he may have just pulled up behind the trees but then there was a loud bang and a huge pall of smoke. The show carried on but, somehow, it all seemed rather meaningless after the crash and I left soon afterwards.
These aren't the photos I was planning to post but..
Preparing for departure a couple of minutes before the crash
A few seconds after the crash
A rather sad Pete.
These aren't the photos I was planning to post but..
Preparing for departure a couple of minutes before the crash
A few seconds after the crash
A rather sad Pete.
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Geez. 
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Very Sad Pete But i must say with that first photo you done him proud mate......Airplane crashes in there very nature are hard to witness and in my time in the RAF i witnessed 3 and you never get used to seeing the brutality of it , in my present job i witness horrific things on an almost daily basis and whilst wishing no one any ill will you do get used to it.
If you drink Pete have a large one and toast the pilot and try to process your thoughts and soon , one day you will be able to put that image into a small part of your brain that very rarely gets to see the light of day......
All the best.
Techy
If you drink Pete have a large one and toast the pilot and try to process your thoughts and soon , one day you will be able to put that image into a small part of your brain that very rarely gets to see the light of day......
All the best.
Techy
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Good advice, thanks.
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Very sad news :-(
My condolences to the pilots friends and family. May he rest in peace.
My condolences to the pilots friends and family. May he rest in peace.
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I echo those thoughts :-( Do we know yet who the pilot was??
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Old sailors never die.. they just smell that way!