Yeovilton Airday 2015 AW609 Possible Blow out?

[POL]

Tower advised the pilot as such.

[seven]

I saw that on the live feed, IIRC he then hover taxiied off the runway but didn't see anymore until it departed.. Was it checked over once it had halted?

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[Tiger Tim]

Saw the same thing yesterday afternoon.

It's the exhaust from the engine being stirred up by the rotors downwash.

[logster]

Yes tower reported that and noted to him that it looked much flatter than the other side so could well have been a blowout.

[POL]

He asked Westlands Tower to have his engineers outside ready for his return, I don't know what happened when it got there though.

Don't think I've ever seen engine exhaust a) come out of the main wheel or b) appear as white smoke before!

[f-4]

Pretty sure he blew a tyre. It was a gentle hover taxi to park on the lazy before departing gear down to Yeovil.

[tim_raper]

It def looked flat on the Planes/YouTube feed on touchdown from hovertaxi

[Typhoon2]

Yep, confirmed that it did in fact blow , some pictures will show its much, much flatter than the usual.

[Supra]

Exhaust ! my a**e. That would explain the un-scheduled leaning & structure-rattling taxi into the disused r/w, followed by a hover-taxi for clearance. IIRC they don't usually do a runway FOD inspection for exhaust smoke. Doh!