CT-114 Tutor fløy første gang den 13.1.1960. Den likner på den amerikanske T-37.
Her Snowbirds under en flyutstilling på Abbotsford øst av Vancouver i 1997. Foto av undertegnede.
I 1967 besøkte acro teamet The Golden Centennaires Williams hvor jeg gikk på flyskolen. De fløy CT-114, men hadde med seg en CF-104G og CF-101, og ble et par år senere til Snowbirds.
Sjekk også video kopiert fa Aviation24.be her: https://tinyurl.com/ya7bc4rp Sjekk stillbilde fra videoen her:
Du ser begge som skjøt seg ut, men bare en overlevde. Mye kan sies om utskytningssetenes dårlige kapabilitet..... Kan være at de fikk et problem like etter T/O som førte til at de måtte få høyde for å skyte seg ut. Flyet har kun en motor. Med moderne seter er det unødvendig.
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One dead after Canadian Snowbirds jet crashes into home
REUTERS
At least one person has died after an aerobatic Canadian air force jet crashed into a residential neighbourhood.
Another crew member was injured when the plane hit a house in the city of Kamloops, British Columbia.
One pilot was able to eject before the crash on Sunday, video showed.
The Snowbirds jet had been on a tour "to salute Canadians doing their part to fight the spread of Covid-19", according to the team's website.
The Snowbirds perform aerobatic stunts for the public, similar to Red Arrows in the UK or the US Blue Angels.
The crash happened on Sunday morning, shortly after the jet took off.
"It is with heavy hearts that we announce that one member of the CF Snowbirds team has died and one has sustained serious injuries," the Royal Canadian Air Force said in a tweet.
The Air Force later said that the crew member's injuries were not thought to be life threatening.
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Video posted on Twitter showed two jets climbing into the air from what is believed to be the Kamloops Airport before one catches on fire.
Witness Annette Schonewille told CBC News: "The one plane continued and the other one, there was two puffs, it looked like puffs of smoke and one... was a ball of fire," she said.
"No noise, it was strange, and then the plane just did a cartwheel and fell right out of the sky. Just boom, straight down, and then a burst of black, black smoke."
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After it hit the front garden of a home in Kamloops, residents ran outside in an attempt to put out the fire.
"I just started running down the street. And I got there maybe a minute after it crashed and there was a couple of residents that had their hoses out and they were trying to put the flames out because it hit a house," neighbour Kenny Hinds told the Associated Press.
"It looked like most of it landed in the front yard, but maybe a wing or something went through the roof."
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Meanwhile, resident Nolyn McLeod told CBC he saw the plane curve into the street and hit the bedroom window of his neighbour's house.
Photos published in Canadian media appeared to show a parachute on the roof of the house.
The city of Kamloops is around 200 miles (320km) northeast of Vancouver in the West Coast Canadian province. It has a population of 90,000.
In October, a Snowbirds jet crashed into an uninhabited area before an air show in the US city of Atlanta, after the pilot ejected.
One Dead, One Injured In RCAF Snowbirds Crash
Capt. Jennifer Casey, the public affairs officer for the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds has been identified as the crew member who died in the crash of one of the air demonstration team’s CT-114 Tutor jets. Capt. Richard McDougall, the pilot of the aircraft and one of the coordinators, was seriously injured after the two ejected seconds before the aircraft crashed into the yard of a house near the airport in Kamloops, British Columbia, late Sunday morning. The aircraft was one of two that took off together about 11:40 a.m. A video on Twitter by Shannon Forrest shows the aircraft pitching up sharply on takeoff before entering a spin that ended in a residential area in the city of about 100,000 in southern B.C. The video shows two ejections from the descending aircraft. When traveling, the Snowbirds normally have technicians or other support personnel in accompanying Tutors that also serve as backups in the case of mechanical issues with any of the team’s aircraft. He landed on the roof of neighboring house and was injured but the injuries are not believed to be life threatening. Two elderly occupants of the house were reportedly uninjured. It’s not clear if anyone else was hurt. The house was destroyed. Weather was reported as partly cloudy with scattered showers.
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