Historic Fighter Plane Crashes On Takeoff

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Historic Fighter Plane Crashes On Takeoff

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A Spitfire flips over and crashes in the North of France on takeoff. The pilot, a 44 year old male survives the crash without serious injury. The "Spit" didn't fair so well. I'm glad the pilot and viewing crowd are all ok.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lq2oT9Bnzo[/youtube]

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cflord wrote:A Spitfire flips over and crashes in the North of France on takeoff. The pilot, a 44 year old male survives the crash without serious injury. The "Spit" didn't fair so well. I'm glad the pilot and viewing crowd are all ok.


Keep the shiny side up and the dirty side down!

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Hope the Spit can be fixed :)
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Wow! That is a shame, but glad to hear the pilot is okay.
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Didn't that aircraft have a problem a year or two ago? I seem to remember a bad prop strike on landing or taxying.

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Bummer!

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Glad the pilot is ok. A spectator had an arm broken by debris.
It's the PRXIX based in Darois (Dijon). Restored by Christophe Jacquard some years ago with a Shackleton engine.
I hope she is not beyond repairs.

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If you notice when he applied power he did not have up elevator but hastily added it too late.
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Not really the place to dissect real plane crashes, Warbirds.

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If you want to read more on what may have happened, I would suggest reading the contents of this thread - http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... =3&t=65414

Dudley weighs in with some information that I think is useful even to us here as he talks about trim setting and how it actually affects the takeoff versus what we think it does.

I will add the information about the bystander who was unfortunately injured. We'd not heard anything in that circle on any bystanders, although it was a major concern with the amount of blade pieces and large chunks of earth that were sent at high velocity toward the crowd line.

BTW, it's important to not this happened at a local fly-in which the Spitfire and SeaFury (also from the same museum) visited for show. The departure was to go back to their base and the planes were heavily loaded with fuel for the trip. This was not going to be a display.
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This was an open day at the local airfield with static display but no airshow. Hence no fire brigade.
Both A/C are part of a private collection based on Dijon/Darois airport. Dijon is 160 nm away from Longuyon and the Spit was not loaded with fuel.

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According to one of the volunteers who was there on the day of the event, both the Spitfire and SeaFury were fully fueled prior to departure. In the US and Canada, this is a common form of "payment" for appearance (even static) of a high profile aircraft at a local event.
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guillaume78150 wrote:...Restored by Christophe Jacquard some years ago with a Shackleton engine.
Correction : it was rebuilt at Chino by Steve Hinton in 2002 and operated by Planes of Fames with the Shackleton engine (Griffon 57) and contra-rotating props.
Sold in 2005 to C. Jacquard in Dijon who retrofit the A/C in its original configuration with the single propeller Griffon 66.
Cédric Ruet, the pilot, is an Armée de l'Air fighter pilot, former Rafale solo presenter. He is obviously the best placed to explain what's happened.

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Horrible to watch esp the wing bend at the end. Great to hear the pilot OK but damn that wing bend looks like spar break?
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