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Old 11th Dec 2022, 07:27
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brakedwell
 
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A memory of my time at Bovingdon. A friend, who was a pilot on Fighter Com and lived in the mess at Bovingdon, arrived back at base in an Anson and found one of the main undercarriage legs would not come down for the landing. He raised the good leg, shut down one engine, turned the prop to horizontal then started his approach to the main north easterly runway. A short way out he shut down the second engine, used the starter moter to make the prop horizontal and landed wheels up with no damage to the Anson at all.
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