Thruster88 Posted Sunday at 12:59 AM Share Posted Sunday at 12:59 AM Extra 300 delivering the Peter Brock trophy to the track landed on mountain straight and hit the wall quite hard with the tail while turning around. I said to wife, they will have to find a parking spot for that but no, it took off with no check. Unbelievable. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted Sunday at 03:19 AM Share Posted Sunday at 03:19 AM Flying's not what it used to be. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thruster88 Posted Sunday at 08:16 AM Author Share Posted Sunday at 08:16 AM Bathurst 1000 2024 | Bizarre scenes as plane carrying the Peter Brock Trophy hits the wall at Mount Panorama WWW.NINE.COM.AU Despite pilot's extensive experience The crowd that the damaged aircraft took off towards can be seen in the vid. Not sure how this was ever got approved. Not a good look for general aviation. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted Sunday at 08:40 AM Share Posted Sunday at 08:40 AM That's a fair old whack. There's no way he didn't know he hit something. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwansey Posted Sunday at 09:02 AM Share Posted Sunday at 09:02 AM I am genuinely puzzled as to how he has got so old being so bold! Perhaps some others might do as I did and check that footage carefully because I think he actually ground looped. The left wing is low and there’s appears to be full deflection of the rudder at both the wrong time and in opposite direction. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted Sunday at 12:07 PM Share Posted Sunday at 12:07 PM Did anyone see how close he came to hitting the wall with the wing? I reckon there's only a few centimetres between the wall and the wingtip, just before he clobbered it with the tail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted Sunday at 11:08 PM Share Posted Sunday at 11:08 PM Lady Luck was with him that time. The paperwork might not be so easy to ignore. Nev 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F10 Posted Monday at 01:43 AM Share Posted Monday at 01:43 AM WHAT WAS THAT?? He smacked that tailplane hard as...pieces fly off....then took off?? Seemed not to even do a control check, although the rudder got some applications. Wonder what he would say if he crashed into the crowd? Or more likely what his family would say? That was pure Hollywood....but for real! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted Monday at 01:47 AM Share Posted Monday at 01:47 AM Very unprofessional. Flying low around Panorama with wind around would be challenging to say the least. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F10 Posted Monday at 01:52 AM Share Posted Monday at 01:52 AM That was also not an aircraft type to have used for this...high landing speed and not short field although they get up to Vr pretty quickly due to engine power. Would have been safer for all concerned, if it was a STOL bush plane, in my opinion. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted Monday at 08:14 AM Share Posted Monday at 08:14 AM Not as sexy. It's all about the show. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moneybox Posted Monday at 10:26 AM Share Posted Monday at 10:26 AM Is there any way we can get a bit of audio from the cockpit? ☺️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted Monday at 10:32 AM Share Posted Monday at 10:32 AM Let me guess the audio... "This'll be close." *CRUNCH* "Shit! Ah well... she'll be right!" 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFguy Posted Monday at 09:09 PM Share Posted Monday at 09:09 PM (edited) We'll see how dark the ATSB roast him. Can't have been a guy that does any maintenance. Working on planes you realise just how light and thin stuff is made....(skins, ribs, control surfaces) ....and how easy it is for controls to jam. replacing aileron cable and re rigging (wings) from scratch the Piper has taught me to be quite afraid (wary/cautious) of the potential for control surface jams and failures. The Jabiru push pull Teleflex is oh so much simpler and I thinik far less chance of anything going wrong, if you don't mind the slop. (which you get used to) Edited Monday at 09:20 PM by RFguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted Monday at 09:24 PM Share Posted Monday at 09:24 PM The ends have to be located securely. There's no redundancy. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted Monday at 10:40 PM Share Posted Monday at 10:40 PM Hummel use a ' push/pull tube ' , seems very simple . spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfly Posted Monday at 10:47 PM Share Posted Monday at 10:47 PM Juan's take on Bathurst (the second part of this vid.) 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Guy Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago (edited) I saw this on the weekend and could not believe it. First an incipient ground loop (Note the full left rudder as the aircraft turns towards the wall), then after the wing misses by inches the tail hits with fibreglass flying everywhere. The damage was clearly visible from the helicopter shot as he taxied back. My comment at the time was "Well that aircraft is not going anywhere now"! The plane just wheeled around like nothing had happened and nobody even LOOKED at the damage! He then took off towards a grandstand crowded with spectators! Are you kidding? Aircraft are NOT race cars, they are NOT designed to bang off the side of a concrete wall! They are FRAGILE, built to purpose, they are NOT tractors! The chance of structural failure was unbelievably high! I maintain my own Jabiru, I am building a Zenith, I have a pretty good idea how strong aircraft are built. We can all see for ourselves how people kill themselves in aircraft! Edited 11 hours ago by Old Guy 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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