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Day 2 of flying legends- went to the school today for a different viewpoint, and as Miss Helen was coming in to land she seemed to lose airspeed. Her engine appeared to be spluttering and as it was throttled up, a large puff of smoke came from the exhausts.  She came down on the airfield quite heavily, and from our viewpoint, bounced pretty high (the whole aircraft could be seen over the hedge. Old Crow, who was behind her, put gear up and went round again, as did a couple of other things. On returning to the car, we heard over an airband that as someone wanted to depart, only the tarmac runway was in operation.

There's a photo in the link above showing a fair bit of smoke coming from her engine on approach.

Let's hope she's back before too long.

Looks fairly unhealthy. In some ways lucky it appears to have been at the western end - the undershoot at t'other end isn't as forgiving.

I was there today. Didn't see what happened & the commentators didn't mention it. It was still out on the field when I left.

Looks fairly unhealthy. In some ways lucky it appears to have been at the western end - the undershoot at t'other end isn't as forgiving.

It was at the eastern end.

I was there today. Didn't see what happened & the commentators didn't mention it. It was still out on the field when I left.

Looks fairly unhealthy. In some ways lucky it appears to have been at the western end - the undershoot at t'other end isn't as forgiving.

It was at the eastern end.

I wonder how the photographer go a picture of its approach from the left side of the aircraft then?

I was there today. Didn't see what happened & the commentators didn't mention it. It was still out on the field when I left.

Looks fairly unhealthy. In some ways lucky it appears to have been at the western end - the undershoot at t'other end isn't as forgiving.

It was at the eastern end.

I wonder how the photographer go a picture of its approach from the left side of the aircraft then?

Probably with one of the visiting aircraft.