Flying corrugated iron

[Pitts Pilot]

It was windy last night….

My precious SL nearly got reshaped by a flying sheet of corrugated iron at 1.00 am this morning.

I heard a loud big and rushed outside to find a sheet of iron in the neighbour’s garden, the width of the pavement from my car!!

Two doors up they are doing a loft conversion and the scaffolding has a “Tin Hat” for weather protection. Well one sheet got ripped off by the wind and my car had a narrow escape:

So close, and yet so far

Robert

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[D-18]

Lucky escape - although I was actually expecting to see a Ford Trimotor.......

 

[trapperjohn]

Not like. As you say narrow escape.

A guardian angel by name of Mercedes was 'appen watching over you.

 

[Wheelsnuts]

Near thing. My car just missed being hit by a flying plastic fascia. Not quite as scary as a big lump of tin!

 

[Jeff666]

Phew... SL 63 parked next to a watch your speed sign. Works for me!!!

 

[Pitts Pilot]

Phew... SL 63 parked next to a watch your speed sign. Works for me!!!

And I DO watch my speed. 30...40...50...60

Robert


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[BTB 500]

Lucky escape - although I was actually expecting to see a Ford Trimotor.......

German marques here ... Ju 52 "Iron Annie"

 

[Minz]

Lucky escape indeed.
Not sure I'm too keen on the mods you've done to your car. I preferred it when it was more....... well.......car shaped.

 

[Pitts Pilot]

Lucky escape indeed.
Not sure I'm too keen on the mods you've done to your car. I preferred it when it was more....... well.......car shaped.

Oh NO, that bl**dy car salesman at MB Basingstoke...well at least its under warranty…

Robert

 

[Jeff666]

And I DO watch my speed. 30...40...50...60

Robert


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And after the first 4 seconds...

 

[BEJ]

And after the first 4 seconds...

Rotate!!

I'll get me coat.

 

[E55BOF]

German marques here ... Ju 52 "Iron Annie"

aka "Tante Ju" to the Luftwaffe

 

[BTB 500]

aka "Tante Ju" to the Luftwaffe

Indeed. I managed to see six of them together in Germany a couple of years ago! Four of them arrived in formation, which was quite a sight

 

[Pitts Pilot]

Rotate!!

I'll get me coat.

Robert


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[guydewdney]

Sl63 with a blue badge on invincibility?

 

[Charles Morgan]

Indeed. I managed to see six of them together in Germany a couple of years ago! Four of them arrived in formation, which was quite a sight

I've had a flight in a Lufthansa Heritage one, twice. Both from Goodwood airfield during the Festival of Speed, organised by a German colleague of mine who was Lufthansa's most travelled UK customer.

Three guys in the cockpit really flying, the engineer in the middle constantly re-trimming the plane. I'll see if I can find my photos of it in a box somewhere!

 

[mct_cars]

Indeed. I managed to see six of them together in Germany a couple of years ago! Four of them arrived in formation, which was quite a sight

That looks awfully like a gunsight at the bottom of the photo?!?

 

[BTB 500]

I've had a flight in a Lufthansa Heritage one, twice. Both from Goodwood airfield during the Festival of Speed, organised by a German colleague of mine who was Lufthansa's most travelled UK customer.

Three guys in the cockpit really flying, the engineer in the middle constantly re-trimming the plane. I'll see if I can find my photos of it in a box somewhere!

That sounds fantastic. I've seen one flying along the Thames in central London ... last year I think ... possibly linked? I believe there are only 8 airworthy in the world.

D-AQUI (the Lufthansa aircraft you flew in) arrived in formation with a Luftwaffe-marked one just as we were leaving the show in Germany. It was bucketing down with rain at the time



We've been 'airborne' in one ... but only because it was on the roof of a museum

 

[BTB 500]

That looks awfully like a gunsight at the bottom of the photo?!?

LOL no, it was a crane jib thing that had been set up for some pro photographers to get a better view.

 

[BTB 500]

Robert


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Not enough BHP in there to be wearing an AMG badge?!