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Sea Fury crash landing on Thursday

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The pilot for the aircraft is Lt Cdr Chris Gotke RN. He's one of the test pilots at Boscombe Down and flies Warbirds on behalf of the Senior Service at weekends. He gained a Queen's Commendation a few years back for a dead-stick landing in the Hawker Sea Hawk after an engine failure. He brought the Sea Hawk down to a perfect landing from a glide, with just the electricity from the ram--air turbine to keep the flight controls going. Quite a pilot, and a very decent chap.

 

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WOW! Now THAT was a landing... Excellent job bringing it down safely. Hope to see that beautiful bird airborne again someday soon.

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