Museum Piece Takes Off
 

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I missed this on the news earlier, glad nothing serious happened

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lol quite funny. Would be good if they had a cockpit camera to see them crapping it :lol:

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quality, should have taken it round for a spin

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New undercrackers for Mr Prothero

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Hmmmmm, call me a sceptic, engineer pushed the throttle the wrong way did he, then froze and the plane just lifted?

I would have thought there was a fair margin between slow taxi up the runway and take off speed, perhaps an old 70 year old going for one last blat, before they don't let him near it again :smt102

Cheers Mark

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The old boy did well not to stack that!

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old news, and very much a story twisted by the press.

i was there on the day, the victor did not sore into the sky reaching 150ft and i am postitive the vast majority of witnesses who know a thing a too about aircraft will state the same. now the maintainers of this aircraft are exaggerating the story to get sponsors and donations to help keep the aircraft preserved.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:b...84096fc2c4.jpg

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:a...t/be2aedcc.jpg

these are non-tampered photographes, see one with the victor higher and it has been photo-shopped

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So did it fly or not? Article suggests not really.

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it left the ground and drifted left a few feet; the engineer took control, possibly the first time these misfits have actually done something correct with is aircraft, and placed the aircraft back on the runway