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Old 12th Feb 2011, 22:12
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seagull617
 
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Neville Browning

Hello Sir George,

Neville's accident was approximately 1968. He was performing at an airshow at one of the East Anglian USAAF bases. I think it was Bentwaters or Mildenhall but not too sure.

He started his show with a take-off, held it low for a while to build up speed then rolled inverted. He would have normally continued in this attitude (very low) down to the end of the runway before a push through and climb into the first half of an outside loop.

unfortunately on this day he experienced a total power failure inverted just above the runway and simply collided with the ground before he had a chance to do anything like recovering. He died instantly.

Barry
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