gear up landing in WI

[tow-3]

just saw this on the FAA page. looks like miss merced has a incident


IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 878M Make/Model: EXP Description: HAWKER MK 11 SEA FURY
Date: 09/30/2012 Time: 1658

Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Unknown

LOCATION
City: KENOSHA State: WI Country: US

DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT LANDED GEAR UP, KENOSHA, WI

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 1 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:


OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase: Landing Operation: OTHER


FAA FSDO: MILWAUKEE, WI (GL13) Entry date: 10/01/2012

I hope there wasn't to much damage.

[wingman]

Re: gear up landing in WI

So what is it with Sea Fury landing gear this year...

[440_Magnum]

Re: gear up landing in WI

So what is it with Sea Fury landing gear this year...

Really. Someone spray them with gremlin pheromones or something?!?

[Victor Archer]

Re: gear up landing in WI

Poor old bird...

[stuntflyr]

Re: gear up landing in WI

That scheme looks like Furious'.
I wonder if Mike CArroll hesitated a few days before stripping that paint?
Chris...

[Coyote Chris]

Re: gear up landing in WI

Looks like she had an issue in 1971

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/furyregistry/fury-wg567.html

[wingman]

Re: gear up landing in WI

Yep -- got quite badly bent. That was one of the incidents that conviced Americans that the Centaurus engine really is not amenable to hopping up and over revving. That motor had been beat on hard in the months before the engine failure, and those sleeve valve motors don't like that...

[Jan]

Re: gear up landing in WI

Hope, she will be repaired and be back at the 50th Races next year.

One from 12 years ago:

[sledge39]

Re: gear up landing in WI

...shortly before the 1971 incident...

[Scotty G]

Re: gear up landing in WI

That was one of the incidents that conviced Americans that the Centaurus engine really is not amenable to hopping up and over revving.

It's been a long-known maxim that radials don't take rpm above red line very well.

[RichH]

Re: gear up landing in WI

Hope, she will be repaired and be back at the 50th Races next year.

If they weren't racing it before the incident, I doubt they will be after it's been repaired.

It's been quite a while now since it was last seen turning pylons...

[Ken Adkins]

Re: gear up landing in WI

Miss Merced looks every inch the racer. Does anyone know why the current owners haven't brought her to Reno since the early 2000's? I hate to even say it, but I'm surprised they haven't gone back to stock!

[supercub]

Re: gear up landing in WI

Looking at the pic from 1971, I was wondering if anyone knew what the canopy was from? or was it scratch built.
Brian

[Big_Jim]

Re: gear up landing in WI

Looking at the pic from 1971, I was wondering if anyone knew what the canopy was from? or was it scratch built.
Brian

That canopy was built for the airplane in 1966 when it was the "Signal Sea Fury" owned by Mike Carroll. It was a custom-blown canopy. It didn't become "Miss Merced" until it was purchased from the Carroll estate by Dr. Sherman Cooper in 1969.

For many years that canopy was in the Sanders family hangar at Chino and then Ione. But I believe that it was given to Michelle McKintrick a couple years ago...Michell was Mike's niece.

[Leo]

Re: gear up landing in WI

I hate to even say it, but I'm surprised they haven't gone back to stock!

I thought it was, except for paint?