Spitfire crash lands

[Guest]

I've been to that air show laurie it is a good one do they still have the old planes and things on the promenade in St helier ?

Yes it is a great show Alan.


All the aircraft are "moored" at the airport including the Arrows.


You can wander around, behind a rope, and view the lot. One


year the Catalina was taking people for flights around the island.


The Red Arrow pilots and ground crew are always hanging


around chatting. Then off for dinner into St Helier.


In Tavistock in about 10 days time. Cannot find anything happening.


Which is the best model shop in Plymouth or Exeter ? Just like to


wander around and keep my darling wife impatient.


Laurie

[Guest]

The ammount of energy in a moving object is impressive especially with velocity being squared in the.basic calculations! Glad you were not too injured its like casualty on here

No got off lightly Dougie. A chipped vertabrae. Pelvis broken in 3 places. Lost 50% of my blood internally and then died in hospital. Bit of drama played out pretty minor stuff really.


Laurie

[Guest]

No got off lightly Dougie. A chipped vertabrae. Pelvis broken in 3 places. Lost 50% of my blood internally and then died in hospital. Bit of drama played out pretty minor stuff really.
Laurie

Wow, that's pretty hard core mate, I broke a rib this year ops:


You can't keep a good man down. Sarah was a bit shocked to hear that. She treats those kinds of patients a lot as well. Hopefully it doesn't affect you too badly now

[stona]

The Spitfire in question has made a couple of previous unplanned landings, last in 2012 in Germany.


It has suffered some fairly severe damage this time:


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It was piloted by Roy Davies who some will remember making a remarkable escape from the P-51 Big Beautiful Doll a few years ago at Duxford:


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If pilots have nine lives he's getting through his!


Cheers


Steve