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Old 2nd Aug 2014, 20:31
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I remember many years ago a chum on my Sqn getting just a little too enthusiastic with dive bombing Filfla Rock (just off Malta) and both engines of this Canberra flamed out due to negative G. He glided back to Luqa airfield and had to hand pump the undercarriage down. The main wheels came down at about 10 feet and he held the nose up whilst still frantically pumping until the nose leg locked down. He got a good show for that and a b*llocking for flaming out the engines.

Winkle Brown when flying the Gloster Jet out of the Farnborough had a flame out at altitude that wouldn't relight. He glided back to Farnborough, carried out a dead stick landing, rolled off the runway and back onto the parking slot he departed from... The Engineers seeing it arrive couldn't figure out why the engine was stone cold.
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