Draken towed target hits house in Cornwall.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2025 1:57 am
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Draken towed target hits house in Cornwall.
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Re: Draken towed target hits house in Cornwall.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:09 am
Looks like Draken did her a favour. Those curtains are horrendous.
Re: Draken towed target hits house in Cornwall.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:30 am
Good job she wasn't having a number two at the time.
Re: Draken towed target hits house in Cornwall.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:57 am
Bless her! Tough as Supermarket steak & clearly able to deal with shock & trauma after looking at those curtains for years, eh POL?
Ever so slightly OTT journalism again, 'Destroyed' ?? Jeez, I've stayed in 3-Star hotels where that post-incident bathroom would've been more acceptable.
On a serious note, previously 7 Sqn operated Canberra jets towing a variety of targets from underwing Rushton winches at St Mawgan & I can recall several incidents where towed targets were jettisoned over the airfield.
IIRC some random Sage told me that the winch was able to guillotine the cable in the event of a retraction failure? The gunnery targets were usually dropped over the airfield to assess the evidential results post-mission.
Some more info on the darkside....https://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=13754.
Clearly a jettison should not be combined with a Radar to Low Approach as seems to be the case here!
Ever so slightly OTT journalism again, 'Destroyed' ?? Jeez, I've stayed in 3-Star hotels where that post-incident bathroom would've been more acceptable.
On a serious note, previously 7 Sqn operated Canberra jets towing a variety of targets from underwing Rushton winches at St Mawgan & I can recall several incidents where towed targets were jettisoned over the airfield.
IIRC some random Sage told me that the winch was able to guillotine the cable in the event of a retraction failure? The gunnery targets were usually dropped over the airfield to assess the evidential results post-mission.
Some more info on the darkside....https://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=13754.
Clearly a jettison should not be combined with a Radar to Low Approach as seems to be the case here!
Re: Draken towed target hits house in Cornwall.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:55 pm
Back in the 80s (maybe earlier) there was a Hunter from Brawdy or Chivenor which had an emergency and the pilot ejected over the Bristol Channel; the Hunter carried on and landed between two house in Tintagel, basically in one piece.
Re: Draken towed target hits house in Cornwall.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2025 6:05 pm
Here is a link to the Tintagel incident for anyone interested:
http://www.tintagelweb.co.uk/Tintagel%2 ... 0Crash.htm
Found it a few weeks back and kept the link for future reference.
http://www.tintagelweb.co.uk/Tintagel%2 ... 0Crash.htm
Found it a few weeks back and kept the link for future reference.