Heart stopping moment

[Kevin Farnell]

Roger Bacon or Uncle Roger graced the back page of Flight International under the heading of 'straight and level'. He would often accompany a picture like this http://resources2.news.com.au/images/20 ... -crash.jpg with the line 'still too late on the roundout Hoskins'.

Nev

That brings back memories!. I first subscribed to Flight International aged about 14 (approx. 1978 ). 'Straight and Level' was always the first page I turned to. As well as the phrase already mentioned, another favourite was 'Ahhh - De Havilland', as well as Uncle Roger's fictional airline 'Birdseed Airways'. Any similarity to BOAC/British Airways' call sign 'Speedbird' being co-incidental. And, wasn't there a character 'Monty Orangeballs'?
I even qualified as a 'Total Aviation Person', by scoring high enough in 'Straight and Level's' Christmas quiz.

Regards

Kevin

[Chris Trott]

There are some bits of info on the cause in this article: http://pilotonline.com/news/military/lo ... 45c9d.html

Thanks for that. So it was kinda both of my beliefs - a failure and a misprogram. The failure was with the prior trap, and the misprogram was with that one as a result. I'm just glad none of the injuries were critical.