Chipmunk hits antenna!

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Chipmunk hits antenna!

#1 Post by TheGreenAnger » Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:11 pm

This chap came close to losing a wing.
A De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk (LV-NRY) struck an antennae almost ripping off the wing sending debris into the crowd watching the aircraft display. The pilot was not injured on November 5, 2022 at Bragado Airfield, Buenos Aires in Argentina.
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#2 Post by OFSO » Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:42 pm

Lucky escape. Lucky a few rivets and I guess the spar held.

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#3 Post by Boac » Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:52 pm

An aerial accident?

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#4 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Nov 07, 2022 4:01 pm

Seems like someone put an antenna too close to an airport or vice versa. :-?

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#5 Post by Boac » Mon Nov 07, 2022 4:15 pm

Nah! I reckon someone put a Chipmunk too close to an aerial? :-?

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#6 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Nov 07, 2022 4:35 pm

That too! :D

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#7 Post by barkingmad » Tue Nov 08, 2022 8:53 am

Or the Chipmunk was allowed into close proximity of someone alleging to be a “pilot”?! ~X(

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#8 Post by Rossian » Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:07 am

One day a long time ago, I was the range control officer at Rashid Range near Dubai (where all the glitzy hotels are today) when the last Hunter rip-***** pilot of the day decided to "give the lads a bit of excitement" before he set off back to Sharjah. He put the wing tip round the back of the quadrant hut (30-ish ft high) at warp factor snot. Unknown to him there was a simple HFSSB aerial(wire) out to a stick in the sand about 100ft away. he lost about 3ft off the wing and wobbled away to a bit more height and headed for Sharjah. Didn't make it, lost control and ejected into the warm waters of the Gulf where he was duly fished out by the 72Sqn Wessex. On the a/c back to Bahrain the next morning on the way to UK - I often wonder what happened to him later. Did he become an Air Vice Admiral? Would have if he'd been in the Andrew.

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