Naval trainer crashes into house

[TheGreenGoblin]

Two dead on board T-6B Texan II aircraft with a house and cars on fire in ‘heavily populated’ area outside Foley, Alabama

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... burns-home

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[barkingmad]

This aircraft is apparently a development of the Pilatus turboprop trainer which the RAF should have ordered as a Jet Provost replacement decades ago.

But apparently they were overruled by politics and forced to buy and operate the Embraer Shorts “Meccano” instead, in order to keep the labour force in NornIron happy for a few more years during the Civil War over there.

Innit amazing how the hamster wheel of fate keeps rotating? I wonder how much fiddling around with what could be a well designed aircraft will be performed by their Airships in MoD and at what cost and detriment to it’s performance?

Unsurprisingly with such an attitude I was not invited to remain in Betty Windsor’s Flying Club beyond my scheduled retirement date. ‘Thank goodness for that’ was the chorus as I exited the station for the last time.

[TheGreenGoblin]

This aircraft is apparently a development of the Pilatus turboprop trainer which the RAF should have ordered as a Jet Provost replacement decades ago.

Used by the SAAF... alongside the BAE Hawk...

[Pontius Navigator]

I still remember how the RAF trumpeted that they were the world's first all-jet pilot training air force when the JP replaced the PP. Of course the ME training was still on the Varsity.

[ian16th]

I still remember how the RAF trumpeted that they were the world's first all-jet pilot training air force when the JP replaced the PP. Of course the ME training was still on the Varsity.

Don't knock the Varsity, it was an a/c that did exactly what it said on the box.

Though it did have the worlds most complicated intercom! All done with Type 109 relays.