Wittering Tutor in a field
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Wittering Tutor in a field
From the RAF Wittering InstaSnapFaceWhatsBook page;
The RAF can confirm there has been an incident involving a Tutor training aircraft near RAF Wittering. The aircraft has landed safely on open ground and the pilot is uninjured. A recovery operation is underway and a full investigation will follow.
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It will buff ... oh, wait.
Looks like a neat landing, having selected the right sort of field.
Looks like a neat landing, having selected the right sort of field.
What a conveniently large field.
I’m reminded of an Airclues article in the late 60s, about a Chipmunk forced landing. A UAS was holding its Summer Camp at Shawbury while UBAS was away (at Lindholme, ISTR).
A solo student carried out an immaculate forced landing in a Shropshire field that was so small that the Chippie had to be recovered by a Ternhill Wessex!
I’m reminded of an Airclues article in the late 60s, about a Chipmunk forced landing. A UAS was holding its Summer Camp at Shawbury while UBAS was away (at Lindholme, ISTR).
A solo student carried out an immaculate forced landing in a Shropshire field that was so small that the Chippie had to be recovered by a Ternhill Wessex!
Good job with what looks like a textbook force landing, but I have to admit my first thought when I saw the picture was "this would make a great CAPCOM entry"
May there always be such a convenient field for airmen in difficulties ………….
Incidentally that field looks bigger than St Just aerodrome where I used to fly from!
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Must have been a glider pilot. Field landings always a possibility/probability on a X-Country. I even have a beach landing/aero-tow out of a beach once.
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Empty beach, 1000yds or so long. On the instance of the wing tip touching the ground, not only did dozens of kids and a few adults appear as if zombie like, arising up from the sand, but also a policeman on a BMW motorbike complete with flashing blue appeared from between the dunes. Within 30 seconds or so he had ascertained that "No I haven't crashed" and told me that that was great, as the paperwork for an aircraft crash was "quite horrendous" and off he went. The tide at the time was at the bottom of the ebb. phew!
Life's a beach, we are assured.
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NS, I don't think I said ACO glider pilot. They tend not to fly X-Country, rather give the young, oops gave, the young cadets the basics i.e. to solo standard (Not solo on a FS flight sim derivative, bu rather in a real aeroplane) Anyway back to the thread, well done that man. An aeroplane that can probably fly out of the field providing that the problem is fixable in situ. And if not, at least no BoI required.
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