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Subject: Re: Heads Up! 6/25/16
From: Andrew Chaplin <ab.chaplin@yourfinger.rogers.com>
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Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:nkpf0p0pr3@drn.newsguy.com:
> In article <pa60nbt1hnj6smnoib2q9gb7dg91odovk2@4ax.com>, DAN says...
>>
>>3 props feathered and gear up?
>>Yikes...
>
>
> Pic is from
> http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/Art
> icleView/articleId/325/Lower-than-a-Snakes-Belly-in-a-Wagon-R.aspx
>
> The caption reads:
>
> "Thought two feathered engines on the same side was impressive for low
> level flight? How about three feathered and 20 feet below? This Avro
> Lancaster appears to be post war with the nose turret de-actvated and a
> dome in the dorsal position. This is a very foolish maneouvre.The
> aircraft can't be flown on a single engine. It's done by a dive, a high
> speed pass and a zoom climb at the far end of the runway with a mad
> scramble to unfeather. The situation gets serious if the first
> unfeathering knocks the generator on the good engine off line, leaving
> only battery power. Photo via Blake Reid
>
> I guess crew was showing off...
>
> <<shudder>>
Glad to see they had the link to the low-level pass of the Spit, of which
they said this: 'If you haven't seen this video over the past five years,
you been living in a cave with Bin Laden. One of the best low level
snippets anywhere... click here. Warning... contains high levels of "Fuck-
me"' Youtube has since made it "unavailable, though. :(
--
Andrew Chaplin
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