Lucky to survive this!

[Boac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-54002200

[TheGreenGoblin]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-54002200

Spun in. Extraordinarily lucky to survive.

[ian16th]

A wood & fabric a/c is one big crumple zone!

[TheGreenGoblin]

A wood & fabric a/c is one big crumple zone!

Which usually erupts into flames as fuel tanks split and ignite the kindling, immolating the hapless pilot.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Great War Display Team Pilot Mathew Boddington, who was seriously injured in this crash is now recuperating at home.

In a weird twist of fate his father was killed almost 50 years before to the month when his Miles-built SE-5a replica spun during a filming sequence!

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Lynn Garrison's Miles built SE5 15 September 1970 immediately before fatal crash of Charles Boddington during filming of Von Richthofen and Brown

[larsssnowpharter]

As a sprog, one of the books in my collection of books about flying was "Crash Pilot" by Dick Grace a stunt pilot in the 20s and 30s. He deliberately crashed about 80 aircraft and made a bit of a science of it.

Quite the character, he flew for the US Navy in WW1 and flew B17s in WW2 being awarded the Purple Heart in both conflicts.

He died of old age.

For those interested, Wikipedia has an article on him and there are some stunts he did on you tube.

[TheGreenGoblin]

As a sprog, one of the books in my collection of books about flying was "Crash Pilot" by Dick Grace a stunt pilot in the 20s and 30s. He deliberately crashed about 80 aircraft and made a bit of a science of it.

Quite the character, he flew for the US Navy in WW1 and flew B17s in WW2 being awarded the Purple Heart in both conflicts.

He died of old age.

For those interested, Wikipedia has an article on him and there are some stunts he did on you tube.

Sounds a bit like Paul Mantz, although your man Grace survived unlike Mantz...

Mantz applied for admission to the United States Army flight school at March Field, California but was told he needed at least two years of college to be eligible. Apparently resorting to a ruse involving Stanford University stationery, he managed to gain admission with false documents and became a successful cadet. He did not inform officials of his prior flying experience.

In 1927, shortly before his graduation at March Field, Mantz was flying solo over the Coachella Valley when he spotted a train heading west over the empty desert floor up the long grade from Indio. He rolled over into a dive, leveled off a few feet above the track and flew head-on towards the train as the engineer repeatedly sounded the whistle. At the last moment Mantz pulled up, did a "victory roll" and flew away. This sort of dangerous stunt was fairly common during the early era of loosely regulated flying in the 1920s but the train's passengers included ranking officers coming to March Field to participate in the graduation ceremonies and Mantz was subsequently dismissed from the army. His instructor reportedly made it clear to him that he had the makings of an exceptional pilot and encouraged him to continue a career in aviation.

From Wiki...

[TheGreenGoblin]

What happened to the days when a chap wore a jacket and tie when he flew?

Dick Grace looked the part as well...

Hawaii - Dick Grace

He broke his neck...

[TheGreenGoblin]

In a weird twist of fate his father was killed almost 50 years before to the month when his Miles-built SE-5a replica spun during a filming sequence!


Lynn Garrison's Miles built SE5 15 September 1970 immediately before fatal crash of Charles Boddington during filming of Von Richthofen and Brown

The second of the Miles SE 5 replicas also came to a sticky end in August 1970.

Ex-G-ATGW (first registered in the UK on 20-7-1965). Re-registered in Eire as EI-ARB on 17-5-1967. EI-ARB was lost in an fatal accident on the 18-8-70 in a mid air collision with the camera ship, Alouette G-AWEE, over Wicklow Head, during the filming of the movie "Zeppelin". The Irish Air Corps pilot Jim Liddy of the SE.5A and all on board the Alouette (pilot Gilbert Chomat "Gilly", camera man Skeets Kelly and director Burch Williams) were killed.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=186394

[Ex-Ascot]

What happened to the days when a chap wore a jacket and tie when he flew?

This gentleman did, and brown leather driving gloves probably tailor made from Savile Row. I am sure that HMQ could have asked for a pair of white kid leather flying gloves for him as we were issued with. I mean, it is her Air Force. Blanket stackers would probably even then say sorry but we only have one pair left.

[ian16th]

What happened to the days when a chap wore a jacket and tie when he flew?

This gentleman did, and brown leather driving gloves probably tailor made from Savile Row.

But Never string backed ones!

[Ex-Ascot]

What happened to the days when a chap wore a jacket and tie when he flew?

This gentleman did, and brown leather driving gloves probably tailor made from Savile Row.

But Never string backed ones!

No they were not Ian. I know HRH PC had some neat motors but can't remember what HRH PP had.

[TheGreenGoblin]

This gentleman did, and brown leather driving gloves probably tailor made from Savile Row.