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Old 19th Jan 2007, 14:07
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ZeBedie
 
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Years ago, I used to fly with an ex Beverly pilot. During the 60's, he'd been first officer on a Beverly doing the Wolverhampton airshow. He said they had a very serious incident, due to him preparing the props for reverse on landing, as briefed. Apparently, the captain changed his mind at the last moment and decided to do a touch and go instead. This required the F/O to deselect a load of switches in quick time before it was safe to apply power. They came very close to running out of runway.

Years later, I was talking to someone who'd been a member of The Wolverhampton Aeroclub. He told me all about how he'd watched a Beverly nearly crash at the airshow. Both stories tied up beautifully!
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