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Old 21st Mar 2006, 09:01
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BEagle
 
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In May 1968, XR133, the Whistling Tit to which you refer, hit a 45 gallon oil drum mounted on a wooden support 10 ft off the ground at Gat-el-Afrag desert strip in Libya during a low level high speed beat-up, euphemistically termed an 'undercarriage check'....

In the collision, the a/c was in a right hand bank and lost the outer section of the starboard wing and the starboard aileron. Attempting to roll to port when the left wing is producing considerably more lift than the right could, I suppose be thought of as 'aileron reversal'...

However, the root cause of the accident was pretty obviously something else.
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