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Old 18th Oct 2020, 07:41
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MENELAUS
 
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“they tried to get away by building-up a load of airspeed at zero feet.” It’s called a cushion creep. Designed for low power margins on take off. Not very well executed on this occasion. The “ tussock” nature of the grass probably didn’t help.

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