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Old 24th Jul 2007, 19:56
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Agaricus bisporus
 
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Tragic loss of an irreplaceable airframe.
Think of the scores, maybe hundreds of rookies who handled their first trips in this piece of history without wrecking it. Many only had a handful of flying hours before successfully coping, and then going right into combat...Over the last 55 years! How many must there have been?

But losing control due to well known torque effect on a go-around? Well, maybe, maybe not, but if so what instructional technique allowed that? Cos no way is that the aeroplane's fault. If so shame the instructor wasn't aboard too... Still, if you have to that, do it in Cessnas, not Mustangs! Please!
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