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DougWow! I wonder if it suffered a hydraulic control surface failure?It was just going impossibly slow, at a low altitude in front of the grand stand, I thought, showing off for the audience. We took the schooner out, and anchored behind the police line, for watching the air show.The Nimrod came over the lake, at absolute dead slow towards the grandstand viewing area, at a speed so slow, it looked impossible, for something so large, and close, to be in the air.Then it just dropped, like a bag of hammers, a bit tail down, into 60 feet of water. There was a plume of white water shooting a couple of hundred feet in the air, then silence.Nothing!I didn't notice any malfunctioning flaps, and may not have recognized anything amiss if I had.Those poor crewmen, if it was a hydraulic failure. That was the last time I went to the air show. It was quite a few years ago, and I have had no desire to see something like that again....for what?Cheers Warren
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 9:30 PM, [email protected] [EVGRAY]<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Warren
I went air show in at airfield Seattle area that had that vintage British jet bomber there of the very interesting design..
...underneath it were large puddles of hydraulic oil sfill seeping out of its fuselage with single plastic bucket underneath not doing any good at all... nobody was around or seemed to care about it...then about a week later I read it has crashed and was not really too surprised about it.
Kone
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