Spitfire down at Enstone
Light Aircraft down - near Enstone
Picked up via social media that a light aircraft has crashed today near Enstone, Oxfordshire. Early reports suggested it was a "spitfire" style aircraft. Perhaps a replica.
Thoughts are with family and friends.
Apologies Barry, I did search before posting but did not see your thread
Thoughts are with family and friends.
Apologies Barry, I did search before posting but did not see your thread
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Yep, looks like one of the local replicas. With a fatal PA-28 crash (i think) in Essex the day before and two fatal glider accidents last week, sadly British light aviation is going through a bad patch.
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I am a retired PPL/MEP. It must have been him doing aerobatics above our village of Swalcliffe and Sibford, north of Enstone. I heard a plane doing aerobatics and went outside to watch. I saw him do a loop and on exit some rolls, after which time he flew out of sight in a south easterly direction. IT clearly had the shape of a Spitfire but not a Merlin sound. I can only assume it was him. RIP. When I was still flying, some years ago I went to Enstone to look at the replica's and I was very impressed. I wonder what makes these replica's hard to fly?> Is it a lack of warning prior to the stall? The pictures seem to show he crashed in a reasonably level attitude, does anyone know if he was on finals to land?
EDIT: I must have mistaken the date. My sighting was on the 21st.
EDIT: I must have mistaken the date. My sighting was on the 21st.
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A few years back, one of these spun in during a turn onto finals after a display at an airshow not far from where I live. I wasn't there fortunately, but it shook me since I had a very pleasant conversation with the pilot when he paid us a visit in the aircraft only a few months earlier.
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Detailed info here. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...fordshire.html
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