Originally Posted by
kaz3g
I saw the immediate aftermath of two Warriors that bumped each other rather hard in the circuit at YCEM.
Both aircraft were training school machines with plenty of hours but I was impressed by the way they hung together and kept on flying despite a fair bit of damage.
The YLIL one was BZA, a venerable flying machine with (last time I looked) over 27,000 hours on the airframe - not quite 30,000 but getting there. And a refined and gentle old lady despite her years of punishment at the hands of generations of students.