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Old 28th Mar 2019, 09:36
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I remember watching a Harvard getting airborne prematurely on the bump at White Waltham once. The pilot started raising the gear as the aircraft sank to what looked like inches of a propstrike on the greensward and an ignominious slide on its belly. Luckily airspeed (and ground effect?) was sufficient by that point to keep flying and climb away.
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