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Old 20th Apr 2012, 12:56
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Fareastdriver
 
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The 'Phantom Dive' was thought to be the reason for the last Meteor T7 accident in the RAF when one of The Vintage Pair crashed about twenty years ago. A previous post recalled that the single hydraulic pump was on the starboard engine so the fluid would have taken the least line of resistance and would have led with the starboard mainwheel. With the airbrakes out they would have masked the fin so the yaw would not have been immediately corrected. One thing would have led to another and the aircraft spears in.

Later they had an airbrake restriction to reduce this effect but it could not eradicate it. It is frightening. I was shown it at a safe height in 1961 at Oakington just to demonstrate to me what might happen.
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