HURRICANE crash at Duxford, Oleg plese wach it.
 

This is the reality. No explosions, no fire, no propeller blades curved, or broken. But we have some grass flying in to the air:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf9Br...eature=related

~Cheers!

actually yes, the proppeller blades curved.

pthr than that, the video really shows a soft accidentand in il2 some like these we witnessed bymyself and they didnt differed much.

it would be nic eto see grass floating throw the air tough :)

CHAPEAU! to this pilot

I've had landings like that in Il-2 where one gear was shot-off. Very similar.

It would have been better for the engine if the pilot killed it as soon as he noticed he was veering. Prop-strikes are very bad for an engine. I'm sure it was a terrifying moment though, so I can't blame him.

Great pilot control, he knew he wasn't going to stop before hitting the crowd, watch the rudder and elevators, you can see he kicks left and up on the elevators to nose it over before the tarmac.

But calling it a crash feels a bit harsh? A ground loop is what I would call it...

I was reading a WWII diary the other day where the pilot talked about raising the undercarriage after landing because the aircraft was going to overshoot a wet runway.

Here is a "real" P-47 crash where the props broke and the aeroplane caught fire....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yykln...eature=related

To the contrary, he tries as much as possible to prevent the nose over; but this is basically impossible to avoid on some A/C, there is just no authority anymore on the elevator at such low speeds, and the mass repartition of the Hurricane does the rest...
Same thing for the ground loop aspect: rudder action is feeble compared to an half up landing gear and a wingtip in grass!
Indeed it is too bad he did not cut the engine off before nosing over; it may have been difficult to do when still trying to manoeuver the aircraft...

All these landings or crashes concern different aircraft, on different airfields. The one landing very elegantly on its belly never caught fire (watch the full film of this belly landing which must be floating around...)

The one on fire does not have torn propeller blades...

JV