reverser incident 70s
hi guys, thanks for a very informative thread.
In the mid 70s I lived in a thatch cottage 31nm west of LHR at the bottom of a hill in the Thames valley.
One particularly grotty dark autumn evening our cottage started shaking, I rushed out into the dark expecting to see a car crash but realised it was a low flying aircraft. (I wasn't a stranger to low aircraft noise as we were in the Greenham Common circuit and the F111 had been based here when Upper Heyford was resurfaced).
I later read that droop snoop had an engine go into reverse in cruise.
The subsequent report in the horror comic was of it's following take off when it happened again on rotate.
What I remembered was some sort of award to engines or probably the whole crew and that she didn't get above three thou until crossing the Bristol coast.
questions...
Was it a simple electrical failure?
Was there any protection to stop it happening again?
Was there a significant speed loss when it happened?
Was there a problem with the adjacent engine?
Flying questions.
What was the engine out climb procedure?
Was there another double engine failure procedure as on the iron duck with immediate fuel dumping?
Was it just a coincidence that the flight was routed outside of CAS but along the Thames valley avoiding the high ground to the north and Membury mast?
Thanks
sorry if it has already been covered but have only got through to page 50...