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A Local Hero (Read 847 times)
Jun 21
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, 2010 at 10:06am
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My first experience was not a good one. But It is something that I will never ever forget for many reasons.
The date was the 30th of May 1988, I was just four years old and I was standing in the back garden watching the aircraft from the Coventry/Baginton Airshow pass over the house. I was eating a ham sandwich when all of a sudden an aircraft came out of nowhere dissappearing behind the house, followed shortly after by a deafening explosion. I ran inside to see a huge fireball roaring down the street in between the houses. At this point, I think I burst into tears! a few seconds later, one of the rear wings slammed into the garden fence, landing just a few feet from where I had been standing.
The aircraft that had crashed was a Gloster Metoer T7 (WF791) and was being piloted at the time by pilot Flight Lieutenant Peter Stacey. It is now known that the aircraft encountered catastrophic engine difficulties during the display and plummeted towards the houses
Flt. Lt. Stacey knew if he hit the houses there would be massive loss of life and he took the split second decision to nose dive the stricken Meteor into a patch of open ground between the Willenhall and Ernesford Grange housing estates. The aircraft impacted just the other side of the main road, into a small peice of greenery, missing a bus by yards, and the houses by a hundred yards.
Without the bravery of Lieutenant Peter Stacey, Many others and I may not be here today.
A true Hero.
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/peterstaceymemorial.jpg
FSX, HDE 2 clouds, Aircraft is fs2004 import found here at simV
Deano
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Jun 21
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A very touching story, and a fitting tribute in picture.
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Jun 21
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ShaneG wrote
on Jun 21
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, 2010 at 12:53pm:
A very touching story, and a fitting tribute in picture.
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"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"
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CHUCK79 wrote
on Jun 21
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ShaneG wrote
on Jun 21
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A very touching story, and a fitting tribute in picture.
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Jun 21
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, 2010 at 7:01pm
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RaptorF22 wrote
on Jun 21
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CHUCK79 wrote
on Jun 21
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ShaneG wrote
on Jun 21
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, 2010 at 12:53pm:
A very touching story, and a fitting tribute in picture.
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Jun 22
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Happyapple96 wrote
on Jun 21
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, 2010 at 7:01pm:
RaptorF22 wrote
on Jun 21
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, 2010 at 5:58pm:
CHUCK79 wrote
on Jun 21
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, 2010 at 5:44pm:
ShaneG wrote
on Jun 21
st
, 2010 at 12:53pm:
A very touching story, and a fitting tribute in picture.
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Sorry I couldn't resist!
Definitely a moving story and a great shot to go with it
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Jun 22
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matthewdev wrote
on Jun 22
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Happyapple96 wrote
on Jun 21
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, 2010 at 7:01pm:
RaptorF22 wrote
on Jun 21
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, 2010 at 5:58pm:
CHUCK79 wrote
on Jun 21
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, 2010 at 5:44pm:
ShaneG wrote
on Jun 21
st
, 2010 at 12:53pm:
A very touching story, and a fitting tribute in picture.
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Do I or don't I...Ahh what the heck.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Razgriz100000
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Jun 22
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cheers for the replies people!
after the crash, it took my dad years to convince me planes dont just fall outta the sky! he succeded in the end i think
deano
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Jun 22
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Wow, you don't hear such a story every day, and another wow for the fabulous screenshot. Well done.
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Jun 23
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Nice picture and love the storie, im form Coventry myself so i know appreciate the Local Hero story!
(Your not Deano as in Dean Walker on FSopen are you?) Just because i know a Dean on FSopen and i thought it mite be you.
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Jun 25
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Diverskii wrote
on Jun 23
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, 2010 at 2:00pm:
Nice picture and love the storie, im form Coventry myself so i know appreciate the Local Hero story!
(Your not Deano as in Dean Walker on FSopen are you?) Just because i know a Dean on FSopen and i thought it mite be you.
cheers for the comments, no thats not me sorry!
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