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Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:35 am

Spitfire two-step

Poor old bugger.

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Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:11 pm

I wonder how much of a check list this guy used. I see the pito cover wasn't removed before he took off. jg
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Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:02 pm

I suspect that the pitot cover you saw was in place only for a "media" deal. It definitely looked like the right gear collapsed on touchdown. Checklists don't help much with that sort of stuff.

Too bad, but "replicas" are often not very "accurate".

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Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:31 pm

pitot cover

Yeah,
If you look, the owner was doing the taxi with the pitot cover on. The guy that crashed was a different pilot. Gear collapsed outward, normally retracts inward.
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Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:34 pm

The gear on a Spitfire retracts outward.
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