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Old 11th April 2005 | 13:20
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OVERTALK
 
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AFAIK that Macchi bent by UNCTUOUS is still doing hack service at ARDU at RAAF Edinburgh.

It was last time I was there anyway. It's got an 0 something number (029 or 026 I think).

I flew it later on after it got permanently bent and its flick roll was quite frightening. The Hawker de Hav TP's tried all sorts of wing fence and inner leading-edge wedge positions to try and cure it but nothing could.

There was nothing structurally unsound about it and it passed all it's mensurations with flying colours. It just "gave" more on one side under positive G - to the extent that one wing stalled well before the other.

Luckily nobody thought it worthwhile shipping it back to Hawker de Havs at Guildford for it to have the terminatorial experience ofa Hawker de Hav wing spar rework - so it survived when all the others were shedding their wings.
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