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I watched the video of the Spitfire accident. Can someone explain how the accident may have happened? I'm not a pilot but the way the A/C behaves in the footage strikes me as odd, especially for being flown by someone who (I assume) is a qualified and experienced pilot...the rear of the A/C seems to flutter and then rise up forcing the nose down to the point the prop bites in and it flips. Is this pilot error/over compensation? Or perhaps a side effect of a cross wind?

Thanks in advance,

Brookwood
 
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I am a pilot, but no taildragger time.

Pounding on the brakes or dropping the front wheels into a ditch would do it.

But it does sound like a strange accident for what I presume would be a very highly qualified pilot.
 
I have a fair amount of taildragger time but none on something with that kind of power. I have looked at that video a few times and still can't figure out what caused it. It happened very quickly and I wonder it he powered up too suddenly and the torque effect got ahead of him and he touched a brake to try and counteract the torque. These machines have a lot more torque than a normal taildragger and most pilots that fly them use partial power until rudder control is reached before slowly adding more take off power.
 
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Amazing Picture!

“An East German soldier helps a young boy cross the newly erected ‘Berlin Wall’ in August, 1961. Sources state that this photograph was taken on or near the day the barricade was put up, with the child finding himself on the opposite side of the wall as his family. Despite explicit orders by the East German government to let no one pass, the soldier helped the boy through the barbed wire.
The look of apprehension on the serviceman’s face was well founded; it was said that he was seen by his superior officer, who immediately detached the soldier from his unit. Regarding the ultimate fate of the soldier, there is no knowledge of what became of him.”
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My West German inlaws of a socialist bent used to tell me how good things were in the DDR, the East German worker's paradise. I asked why they didn't go east across the line where they would be a propaganda boost. They came up with lame excuses.

I pointed out that people were being shot going east to west, not west to east, and only the aged were granted visits to the west. That shut them up for a spell.
 
To be honest DDR was a "paradise" when compared to most of the Warsaw Pact countries.I grew up in Poland and I know for a fact that we didn't have a lot of things East Germans took for granted.

Consumer goods like clothing,shoes,home appliances and the like were in the stores and whenever possible were bought and transported to Poland and USSR.

We couldn't get it here and when it was quality was often spotty.

On other hand Germans were kept under constant surveillance and control.What happened in Poland 1980-89 couldn't possibly happen in DDR.Not by any stretch of imagination.

Since this is picture thread...
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It was my information that an East German worker paid the equivalent of a months pay for a poor quality overcoat. Same for shoes. Nylons were a real luxury for women. Getting a car required being in good standing with the Honnecker government an who wanted a Lada anyway?
 
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It was my information that an East German worker paid the equivalent of a months pay for a poor quality overcoat. Same for shoes. Nylons were a real luxury for women. Getting a car required being in good standing with the Honnecker government an who wanted a Lada anyway?
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Lada? Those were for special folks, Trabants were for the lumpens! Of course if you were really special like the present Chancellor's family, you got something even better than a Lada...

Those who could remember the Volkswagen of the 1930s must have had a bitter laugh when they saw the Trabant, the socialist "People's Car".
 
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Lada? Those were for special folks, Trabants were for the lumpens! Of course if you were really special like the present Chancellor's family, you got something even better than a Lada...

Those who could remember the Volkswagen of the 1930s must have had a bitter laugh when they saw the Trabant, the socialist "People's Car".
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A man takes his new Lada back to the mechanic, and says "My Lada wont get over 35 up the hill," so the mechanic says "Well, 35 is pretty good for a Lada up hill," and the man replies "Yes, but the problem is that I live at 48"

A local guy here has a first gen Volga hes working on
 
The legendary Trabant...

Here's the final QC and panel "fitting" - lots of mallet work, slamming, and even a few good swift kicks.

 
Aside from watching people dance on the Wall live on TV and my parents making exuberant overseas phone calls to relatives, pics like this are what stick out in my memory about the fall of the Wall and the immediate days following.

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Brookwood
 
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