JP DME Aerial Scraping
In 1964 at Linton a RN Midshipman was night solo and his U/C had self retracted on approach (a common problem due to a mod to the U/C button detent springs which was rubbish) and rounded out but felt he was dropping too low so applied power and managed to overshoot. He bent the DME aerials but no other damage.
I can't remember what happened to him but I know of one instructor who was blamed for his U/C retracting until they discovered the detent spring mod was no good.
We in the RAF doing Advanced Flying Training on the Vampire thought it all very amusing since we had flown the JP with the old detent springs which worked even if the up button nearly broke your finger when you tried to retract the U/C.
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