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By: 14th November 2017 at 08:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Bill Bedford, John Farley ... Not so much display pilots as test pilots whose job was to analyse aircraft behaviour in detail.
By: 14th November 2017 at 22:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I remember seeing Bill on 1 of the Hunter docs holding the photo telling the story. Would love to get a copy.
By: 14th November 2017 at 22:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The picture was published in an edition of Flight International;- Was this it? Doesn't quite look right [ATTACH=CONFIG]256992[/ATTACH]
By: 15th November 2017 at 01:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-spoken about in this wonderful documentary
By: 15th November 2017 at 03:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I think that's the bottom half of the photo???? Or it may be the 2nd shot, I seem to remember a shot of twirling smoke lasting several thousand feet?????
By: 15th November 2017 at 16:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I can't find the photo and believe me I am no expert but I seem to recall seeing a photo similar to the one described of Bedford spinning a Hunter at Farnborough. (1961?). Think it might have been in Raymond Baxter's book?
By: 15th November 2017 at 21:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Awesome, thank you gents
By: 15th November 2017 at 22:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Glad to have been of some assistance! Haven't seen Baxter's book for over ten years (my copy got donated to Newark Air Museum shop along with many others when downsizing my house), but I just had a vague idea that I had seen the twin of the image you described therein. Why can I remember ridiculously trivial stuff like that but not what Mrs Meteor said to me five minutes ago?
By: 15th November 2017 at 22:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-We only remember what's important :eagerness:
By: 16th November 2017 at 11:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-An interesting pair of pictures. The second one suggests that a Hunter can take six or seven rotations to recover from a spin (not for the faint hearted). The first one shows that he recovers with plenty of speed. It is not possible to see what the ground clearance was however as the pullout was the other side of the ridge.
By: 16th November 2017 at 12:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-HP111 If I remember correctly the number of rotations was an intentional part of the demonstration, the aircraft was held in the spin until recovery action was initiated at a certain height, it didn't take that many to recover. When recovery action was taken the ground appeared much closer and the altimeter setting error was realised . The pull up looks pretty close to the ridge to me.
Richard
By: 16th November 2017 at 17:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-If the second picture was taken at Farnborough, I have a picture of the event that I took myself. I will have to look it out and study it.
By: 16th November 2017 at 21:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Thank you so much, I wonder who owns the original negatives????
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By: Black Knight - 14th November 2017 at 04:39
Does anyone have a copy of the photo taken of Bill Bedford spinning the Hunter G-APUX at Switzerland?