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Bristol Freighter dead stick landing

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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?

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ZK-EPF went to Hercules Airlines then Hawkair as C-FYQY and was written off 21 June 1988
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Thanks for the link Darren. Ya gotta love the movies, eh? :lol: It's been a life long crusade of mine rescuing Bristols from their fabric prisons. Haven't been very successful as of late. :( ;)

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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 :-O

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yo Brian :hello:

Here's a set of knockers you can look at.
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Here is a bit more on ZK-EPF in the film The Rescue

http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?bo ... hread=6418

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Here is a colour picture of EPF in the link below

http://tinyurl.com/3ttk4h7
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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) :lol:

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... :dunno: 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??? *-) :dunno:
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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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airboatr wrote:yo Brian :hello:

Here's a set of knockers you can look at.
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Wow! :excited: They're even pierced! :lol:

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