Hungarian Mig-15 crashed on take-off
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Hungarian Mig-15 crashed on take-off
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Hungarian Mig-15, registration HA-UTI (actually a polish-built SB Lim-2 recently re-built by Goldtimer Foundation) crashed on take-off today on a CAA check flight in Szolnok, Hungary. Banked to the right immediately after take-off and hit the runway. Pilots walked away without injury.
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Hungarian Mig-15, registration HA-UTI (actually a polish-built SB Lim-2 recently re-built by Goldtimer Foundation) crashed on take-off today on a CAA check flight in Szolnok, Hungary. Banked to the right immediately after take-off and hit the runway. Pilots walked away without injury.
Not entirely clear, but the single photo of the aircraft, whilst airborne, seems to show the right underwing tank as missing (is that white 'mist' fuel escaping from the right wing?). More clearly, the left underwing tank seems to be in the process of detaching from the left wing (it is canted inwards substantially!).
The 2 crew were very fortunate to walk away from that!
The 2 crew were very fortunate to walk away from that!
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To me, that looks identical to the Duxford T.33 take-off accident of a few of years ago, the cause of which was an over-rotation coming up to take off speed, and a consequent inability to attain it.
To me, that looks identical to the Duxford T.33 take-off accident of a few of years ago, the cause of which was an over-rotation coming up to take off speed, and a consequent inability to attain it.
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For all the world, I've got to agree. It looks like an over-rotation and a failure to accelerate due to the drag. Wrenched off the ground below Vr.
Not pre-judging your honour, just what it looks like.
Not pre-judging your honour, just what it looks like.
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You can tell from this video of the same aircraft that the pilot has a worrying tendency of rotating too early. That's what ultimately caused the crash.
In the fifties the technique of smoothly rotating into take off wasn't used. The pilot would lift the nosewheel and establish the take attitude fairly early on, around 80 knots. Then he would wait untill it flew itself off at whatever the T/O speed was.
The flight manual would have been written that way so that was the way he flew it.
The flight manual would have been written that way so that was the way he flew it.
