Originally Posted by
bvcu
don't think the engine 'failed' on the blenheim , mis handling causing a rich cut so driver error if you read the report.
And said driver was even told not to do it, just before he did it, by the Engineer on board who had just spent a decade or more building it..............and co-incidently I was having a chat with only a few weeks ago (and who also co-incidently a couple of years later also walked away from the crash of the French operated B-17 which crashed and burned out during take-off from Binbrook during the filming of 'Memphis Belle')