Plane crash at Ardmore

[mattyj]

Sympathy to that guy. 3 years building his Glassair..TIO540, Retracts..a real rocket..First flight today and pranged by the test pilot..poor bugger..boys will buy you some beers at Airline Flying Club on the weekend.

[Pass-A-Frozo]

bugger.. pilot ok? What happened?

[6080ft]

Something wrong with the nose wheel perhaps causing it to collapse, then a cartwheel or some other manoeuver to end up upside down on 21.

[What time is ECT?]

only three years??

That Glassair was a real work of art, and absolutely immaculate. Real building time must have felt closer to 10 years. A year of work in the wing alone.
ECT?

[6080ft]

I actually heard he had been working on it for 12 years.

[LocoDriver]

A pristine aircraft, no expense spared.
12 years is correct, a damn shame.
A lot of us have drooled over this Glassair for some years.

At least he was not injured.

Greg's one did the same last year? a design fault of sorts perhaps, something for the engineering boffins to nut out.

LocoDriver