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Old 30th Apr 2008, 12:30
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The way I heard it, the Hurricane suffered a brake failure while rolling out from a stream landing on the runway and ground looped. The Spitfire, landing a little way behind, was already tail down and thus unsighted.

The Hurri is has bent tail feathers, is minus the tail wheel and has a large prop sized bite out of the left wing towards the tip. The Spit collapsed one gear leg inwards, has a dent or two and also needs a new prop. I guess the Merlin is probably shockloaded too.

Unlucky that it happened, just glad it wasn't much much worse.
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