I remember Mr Houlder flying in his eighties to Switzerland for skiing, using the old B&W radar to ground map the valleys.
His son lives in Patagonia but is a bit of a recluse. The family made a fortune on the war materiel left after the 1982 war in the South Atlantic.
Sad state of G-AWOE:
Mooney_Driver wrote:
A Turbo Commander 690 B crashed in Wisconsin today. Apparently climbed to somewhere like 15500 ft and then started a massive descent until impact.
Looks like it entered a spin. TC’s can drop a wing when stalling, so maybe they got caught off guard. Here’s a video of one wanting to go in that direction pretty quick, but wouldn’t call it a mean stall break:
A Turbo Commander 690 B crashed in Wisconsin today. Apparently climbed to somewhere like 15500 ft and then started a massive descent until impact.
Clapclap! Getting closer @AdamFrisch! Thx for letting us onboard!
Great to see that you are back at it!
Thanks!
Yes, seems TC’s are mainly used for survey work in Europe. A few here and there for personal aviation, I know of one that used to be Fairoaks-based (but is now in France) and there are one or two in Germany. Shame, they’re really well suited for European operations with their smaller/unimproved runway capabilities and good range.
Adam very heart warming good to see your TC airborne again! For some reason there have been a couple of TC operating out of Oxford recently, am guessing flight level survey work.
…and a Youtube channel ! Woot !
Great to see you back in the air Adam 
