Bristol Freighter dead stick landing
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Bristol Freighter dead stick landing
For the fans of Bristols and I know we all like Bristols in here
Not sure if you have seen this, it's from a 1988 film called The Rescue - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKH_-WD75Lw
I wonder where the plane is now?
Not sure if you have seen this, it's from a 1988 film called The Rescue - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKH_-WD75Lw
I wonder where the plane is now?
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Re: Bristol Freighter dead stick landing
ZK-EPF went to Hercules Airlines then Hawkair as C-FYQY and was written off 21 June 1988
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Re: Bristol Freighter dead stick landing
Thanks for the link Darren. Ya gotta love the movies, eh? It's been a life long crusade of mine rescuing Bristols from their fabric prisons. Haven't been very successful as of late.
Brian
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Re: Bristol Freighter dead stick landing
Garry Russell wrote:ZK-EPF went to Hercules Airlines then Hawkair as C-FYQY and was written off 21 June 1988
The plane was written off before the film was released on 5-8-88
Re: Bristol Freighter dead stick landing
Here is a bit more on ZK-EPF in the film The Rescue
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?bo ... hread=6418
EDIT:
Here is a colour picture of EPF in the link below
http://tinyurl.com/3ttk4h7
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?bo ... hread=6418
EDIT:
Here is a colour picture of EPF in the link below
http://tinyurl.com/3ttk4h7
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Re: Bristol Freighter dead stick landing
Odd how it's in SAFE livery with yellow instead for grey when it was not a SAFE aeroplane (I don't mean it was dangerous either)
The other thing I find odd it the stopped propellers
I used to see Silver City and British United Superfreighter training quite often
In those days to simulate engine failure they used to shut the engine down and they would fly over with the feathered prop very slowly rotating ...backwards I seem to remember... but rotating in the airflow certainly
On the Man In The Sky film the stopped engine has a slowly rotating feathered prop.
It's as if this had prop brakes fitted???
The other thing I find odd it the stopped propellers
I used to see Silver City and British United Superfreighter training quite often
In those days to simulate engine failure they used to shut the engine down and they would fly over with the feathered prop very slowly rotating ...backwards I seem to remember... but rotating in the airflow certainly
On the Man In The Sky film the stopped engine has a slowly rotating feathered prop.
It's as if this had prop brakes fitted???
Garry
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Re: Bristol Freighter dead stick landing
the practise of shutting down an engine to simulate engine out training was curtailed after the crash of a HS125 into Vauxhall motors at Luton in 1966ish -- They flew a missed approach with the left engine out and while climbing the right Viper gave up the Ghost (pun intended)
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G-AVGW
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