Slight mishap

anzaq · Post by **anzaq** » 25 May 2006, 22:15

As East Fortune is getting delivery of the Viscount which is at Cosford, I decided to fly it there myself rather than have it dismantled and then reassembled.

Waiting at the ramp to taxi

Ready to go at rwy24

Nice smooth take off, no problems for this old girl.

Let's head north and climb to cruising altitude.

Hey, something's not right here. It's all gone quiet!

Help! The engines have stopped. Hold on there's Manchester below me, I might glide her in.

Ok, there's the runway ahead, if I can just keep airborne for a couple of mins.

er, I don't think I'm going to make it after all.

Maybe I can park it in someone's driveway instead.

There! Safe and sound and hardly a dent.

Looks like its gonna have to be dismantled after all

Post by **DaveB** » 25 May 2006, 22:22

Nice one Gordon

Did you forget to put the coin in the meter!! :shock:

Odd that you managed to 'nearly' get as far as Manchester before the engines cut :think: You had this happen before??

ATB

DaveB :tab:

anzaq · Post by **anzaq** » 25 May 2006, 22:25

First time I've had the engines cut out on me, Dave, but then again this is the first time I've properly flown the Viscount. Must've forgot to do something before I took off.

Post by **DaveB** » 25 May 2006, 22:34

Rgr that mate. Fraser has a habit of dropping something 'important' in there that an RTFM will normally sort out

My usual prob is a bit of over exuberance while on the deck which ends in me feathering the props!! :curse: While your props have obviously feathered there.. you've managed to get a lot further than I'd have expected and in reality it would have been easier to have gone up the M6 from Cosford by road had this happened on the ground!

Fraser fly's the little tinkers all the time so perhaps he can advise a 'to-do' for you

ATB

DaveB :tab:

anzaq · Post by **anzaq** » 25 May 2006, 22:49

it would have been easier to have gone up the M6 from Cosford by road had this happened on the ground!

Maybe I'll just do that next time.

Just when you mentioned feathering the props, I was mapping a hot key for the props feather or was it auto feather I can't mind which but I might've done something whilst I was messing around before I did the flight. :think:

VEGAS · Post by **VEGAS** » 26 May 2006, 09:34

Hi Gordon,

Nice shots matey. Shame the Viscount did'nt quite make it. But I would of been glad to see her land at Manchester!

I think a viscount actually crashed in the 1950's just short of Manchester (Ringway's) runway.

ATB

PS - nobody tell Garry you have bent one of his babies!! :-$ :-$

Post by **Garry Russell** » 26 May 2006, 10:19

Eddie

G-ALWE (BEA) was making an approach on 3rd March 1957 when due to metal fatigue a flap rod failed when full flap was applied.

This caused the flap to retract and with asymmetric flap the aircraft turned as it was about to land. The broken rod jammed the ailerons and there was nothing the crew could do.

It hit some houses.

That is almost certainly the one you are thinking of.

Garry

crisso · Post by **crisso** » 26 May 2006, 10:32

My money on why your props feathered is that, you had not set up the anti-icing properly or, at all! (Don't worry you are not alone, I have done that several times previously on both the Viscount and the Argosy!)

VEGAS · Post by **VEGAS** » 26 May 2006, 10:41

Garry Russell wrote:Eddie

G-ALWE (BEA) was making an approach on 3rd March 1957 when due to metal fatigue a flap rod failed when full flap was applied.

This caused the flap to retract and with asymmetric flap the aircraft turned as it was about to land. The broken rod jammed the ailerons and there was nothing the crew could do.

It hit some houses.

That is almost certainly the one you are thinking of.

Garry

Cheers Garry, thats the one.

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 26 May 2006, 12:39

Maybe dismantling it is the safer option.

AndyG