Damien,

Sorry, I couldn't resist it!

Zlin526 - why resist? Humour is partly why this forum is so brilliant! The rest is the quality of the posts!

That pic is another classic Ouch pic along with the G-KEST denouement (If I spelled that right I'll have another pint of the same please?) in the Stampe/Tiger entanglement and Benjy's spinning Tiger at Sywell. (Methinks he should have used a Curtiss Jenny... Spinning Jenny... No? I'll go to bed...)

Now. I'd like to see that famous photo of a Cessna 180 plus pilot and parachutist all suspended under a one man canopy... all suvived, except maybe the C180. Somebody must have a copy!

treadigraph,

Yes I agree, which is why this particular forum is a breath of fresh air.....People seem to enjoy flying on here...

Has anyone got the pictures of Stampe vs Tiger Moth at Weston, and Benji's contretemps at Sywell in the Super Tiger?

G-KEST, I'd completely understand if you objected to seeing it again.


Would love to see them again.

Z

If anyone does have or can source a larger good quality photo of the lightning i would be gratefull for a copy as well. many thanks.

Right, heerz Benjy, a foot or so off the deck!

(pic removed by Treadders!)

As Aerohack pointed out on the Rothmans thread, John Blake added a "thought" bubble to the copy pinned on the Tiger Club's notice board: "If this doesn't kill me, Norman (Jones) will!

I won't leave it here for too long; apart from anything else, I'm hosting it on the company website (must figure out my own space sometime). If the image has gone and you'd like to see it, feel free to PM me.

The only copies of the Stampe/Tiger entanglement I've ever seen were in Pilot a few years ago.

Cheers

Treadders

:ooh:

Come on then, somebody put the mid-air pic up (assuming both parties were okay).

I have the Weston mid-air photo, but can't lay hand to it, and anyway it is not my copyright. Both pilots weren't OK. G-KEST escaped unscathed (or more or less?) but the Tiger pilot suffered serious injuries and I think he lost an eye.

I've got a paperback book called 'into the silk' or suchlike, about parachute escapes. It not only has the 'Lightning' photo in, but also the 182 at Ashbourne descending nose first under a canopy after a jumper got tangled with the tail (jumper is 'twixt canopy and 182). All survived OK IIRC (not at home at present, so can't check).

SSD

Ah, the 182 at Ashbourne - that must be the C180 I referred to a couple of posts up - any chance of posting it or sending me a copy - I've never seen it! Think you are right that all survived OK.

Another remarkable photograph I can remember seeing many years ago was in a copy of National Geographic. It was of a C182 or C206 (I think) at the very moment of impact with a lorry either in South America or Africa. Various people who were on the lorry are caught in the act of leaping clear - I hope - in all directions. No idea what caused it or what happened to the occupants of the aircraft or the lorry. I don't think the caption elaborated...

treadigraph

Is this the one?

http://www.canberra.plus.com/pics/Cessna-01.jpg

Didn't realise it was from Nat Geo, always thought it was a clever fake.

:ok:

Heads up nice people.

Please consider any posting of pictures of a doubtful kind i.e. those involving fellow pilots who were badly injured or worse. Aerohack has already alluded to it - quite rightly. Benjy will not mind 'his' picture being seen but I agree with Treadders for a different reason than he has mentioned for it's removal.

This forum is thought very highly of and I would not like us to give a the wrong impression. Leave that to other sites where some pics are very out of place and unsavoury.

Just a thought which I am sure has already crossed some minds.

CP

I can't see the problem with showing pictures that have already been published in past aviation magazines. There are far more unsavoury things shown in national newsparers every day. Whilst I do not condone sensationalizing plane crashes, they are a fact of aviation life. It is not being ghoulish, just showing an interest.

Reichman

Point taken CamelPilot. Zlin, can you PM me when you've seen it, and I'll delete.

For anyone who doesn't know the story, the accident resulted from a stall/spin during crazy flying - Benjy was flying again within a few days and the Tiger flew again, at least for a while.

Beeayeate, yes, that's the one. It appears to have been reversed though, I think the open panel on the cowling of the Cessna (an early C172?) should be on the r/h side, and I certainly recall the pic being the other way round. Visible blade indicates prop stationery and I'd assume that panel had popped open prior to the accident. Don't think it's a fake: IIRC it appeared in National Gegraphic towards the end of the seventies. As I say, the caption didn't explain much that I can remember, but I like to think that all concerned got out OK.