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Post by garfield on Mar 17, 2013 20:01:03 GMT 10
Pilot killed in replica Spitfire plane crash at Salisbury in Adelaide's northern suburbs A PILOT has been killed when his replica World War II Spitfire plane crashed between two businesses in Adelaide's northern suburbs, narrowly missing a soccer match. Police said Roger Stokes, 73, of Monarto, died when his seven-year-old plane, a replica of the Mark XXVI Spitfire, crashed into a fence on Frost Rd, Salisbury, just before 2pm. Relatives have been advised of Mr Stokes' death. The fence runs between two adjoining businesses, which were both closed at the time. The wreckage of a replica WWII Spitfire plane after it crashed in Salisbury, in Adelaide's north. The crash killed its pilot Roger Stokes. Picture: Simon Cross  |
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Post by garfield on Mar 17, 2013 20:04:16 GMT 10
Spitfire crashes ... Not the kind of headline you would expect 70 years after WW2  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2013 20:47:05 GMT 10
Beware of the Hun in the Sun.... Anyway, that aeroplane which crashed in Adelaide isn't a REAL Spitfire. It isn't even a full-sized replica. Go to Temora in NSW if you want to see a couple of REAL Spitfires. Or you could pop across the Ditch to NZ where there are three airworthy Spitfires.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2013 20:48:30 GMT 10
Wanna see some more of that FW190? It's based at Omaka Aerodrome in Blenheim at the top of NZ's South Island.
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Post by garfield on Mar 17, 2013 20:58:57 GMT 10
I don't know why the reporters thought that this would be newsworthy as far as the general public go's but they reckon that the Spitfire had a truck motor in it instead of the Rolls Royce merlin it was supposed to come equipped with so there you go
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Post by chequeredflaggg on Mar 24, 2013 8:14:06 GMT 10
Wanna see some more of that FW190? It's based at Omaka Aerodrome in Blenheim at the top of NZ's South Island. the Anson is nice... hahaha, the ANSON is based at a place called BLENHEIM.. Now you need to be a planey to get the joke there.. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2013 14:05:49 GMT 10
That Anson is actually based at Nelson.
It's about 30 minutes flying time away from Blenheim.
However, it is currently temporarily living at Blenheim, as a lots of other aeroplanes which have been flown there for the big airshow over Easter weekend. Quite a few of movie director Peter Jackson's WWI toys have been flown across Cook Strait from Hood Aerodrome (just down the road from me) to Omaka Aerodrome at Blenheim for the airshow. They've been gradually shifting them across in small groups over the past couple of weeks. And the locally-resident P-40 Kittyhawk and FG-1D Corsair have also been repositioned to Blenheim until after Easter weekend.
I'm at Auckland Airport at the moment waiting for my flight home to Masterton. Next weekend I'll be at the Classic Fighters airshow at Blenheim.
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