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Jonty
27th Apr 2013, 20:33
Anyone know the story here?
BBC News - Pilot dead after Hampshire crash (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22324221)
My thoughts and sympathies are with the family of the dead pilot.
NutLoose
27th Apr 2013, 20:55
Looks like one of the Aircraft for tomorrow's display? (Suggested elsewhere) has crashed, the Junkers replica parked nearby and Skeletal remains, one hopes it wasn't one of the guys that put on a superb WW1 display at Cosford
BBC News - Pilot dead after Hampshire crash (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22324221)
AGS Man
28th Apr 2013, 07:22
Sad news indeed.
green granite
28th Apr 2013, 08:06
It is rumoured to be the WW1 replica Fokker monoplane.
Historic? fatality near Middle Wallop (http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?123913-Historic-fatality-near-Middle-Wallop)
ricardian
28th Apr 2013, 08:41
BBC reporting (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-22328383) that the civilian plane came down at the Army Aviation Centre in Middle Wallop, on Saturday afternoon.
Skeleton
28th Apr 2013, 09:03
Rumoured to be the WW1 replica Fokker monoplane according to another aviation website.
S Jones
28th Apr 2013, 10:57
Sounds like it's the one from the Great War DisplayTeam, though some confusion over if it's the Eindekker or the Triplane that went down.
Great War Display Team - Home (http://www.greatwardisplayteam.com/index.html)
Sad a life lost, whichever plane it was.
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/7579/gwdt.jpg
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/6566/73767978.jpg
S Jones
28th Apr 2013, 17:25
Sadly it looks like it was the Eindekker:
Pilot killed after First World War replica aircraft crashes near airfield where he was practising for display | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316085/Pilot-killed-First-World-War-replica-aircraft-crashes-near-airfield-practising-display.html)
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/28/article-2316085-19862AF2000005DC-901_634x373.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/28/article-2316085-19862A9A000005DC-422_634x379.jpg
audioaviator
29th Apr 2013, 08:20
It was the Eindekker. The chap was a neighbour, flew it (and his micro light ) almost every given day within limits of the weather. I shall miss seeing his flying machines on short final over my garden. R.I.P. aviator. :(