View Full Version : Plane crash at Ardmore
mattyj
6th Jun 2006, 08:25
Sympathy to that guy. 3 years building his Glassair..TIO540, Retracts..a real rocket..First flight today and pranged by the test pilot..poor bugger..boys will buy you some beers at Airline Flying Club on the weekend.
Pass-A-Frozo
6th Jun 2006, 08:35
bugger.. pilot ok? What happened?
6080ft
6th Jun 2006, 08:42
Something wrong with the nose wheel perhaps causing it to collapse, then a cartwheel or some other manoeuver to end up upside down on 21.
What time is ECT?
6th Jun 2006, 19:02
That Glassair was a real work of art, and absolutely immaculate. Real building time must have felt closer to 10 years. A year of work in the wing alone.
ECT?
6080ft
6th Jun 2006, 19:43
I actually heard he had been working on it for 12 years.
LocoDriver
7th Jun 2006, 01:54
A pristine aircraft, no expense spared.
12 years is correct, a damn shame.
A lot of us have drooled over this Glassair for some years.
At least he was not injured.
Greg's one did the same last year? a design fault of sorts perhaps, something for the engineering boffins to nut out.
LocoDriver