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The report concludes that the ASI readings were accurate and in broad agreement with estimates generated by camera footage from inside the cockpit and the ground. One of the altimeters may have been sticking and lagging, but this would result in the altimeter under reading at the top of the loop, showing the aircraft to be even lower than was actually the case. This makes it even more puzzling why the loop was continued after the apex.

Camera recordings of previous flights indicate that the pilot did not fly the display sequences as accurately as might be desired. There appears to have been a tendency to fly manoeuvers a bit lower than the ideal. So something of a habitual pushing of the limits? Makes for more exciting viewing from the ground, but no room for error if things go wrong, as they did at Shoreham.
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