Shuttleworth Gladiator forced landing 4/6/17 - all well!
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Shuttleworth Gladiator forced landing 4/6/17 - all well!
Hats off to whoever it was that safely landed the Gladiator in a cornfield near Old Warden this afternoon after the engine started misbehaving rather badly while leading a formation.
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Well that's going to confuse the CAA, as the Gladiator is classified as a 'Simple' aircraft. And they've been telling us in recent years that it's only those dastardly 'Complex' jets that have problems at air shows and which need to be grounded.
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He pulled off a very smooth landing in a field of barley. Could have been a different story for virtually any other biplane with a straight through axle.
