Well-known warbird pilot Rob Davies escaped uninjured after baling out of P-51D Mustang Big Beautiful Doll on 10 July. His low-level exit from the aircraft followed a midair collision at Duxford's Flying Legends Air Show with the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis' AD-4N Skyraider, which was landed safely by its pilot Pierre Fages. The mishap occurred at the very end of the flying display on the show's second day Recoveries following the massed 'balbo' flypast by 27 warbirds were coming to a close, with the final three and four-ship sections running in to break. Big Beautiful Doll, sold by Rob Davies to the Air Fighter Academy at Heringsdorf, Germany, earlier this year, had the Skyraider on its left and Dan Friedkin flying Comanche Fighters' P-51 D February to the right. As the three aircraft approached the western end of the airfield, Rob pulled up and broke left into the circuit. Pierre Fages followed a few seconds later in the Skyraider, seeming to pull rather harder than had the Mustang ahead. The collision occurred moments afterwards, the Skyraider's starboard wing appearing to strike the Mustang aft of its under-fuselage air scoop. Big Beautiful Doll was thrown sideways by the impact, while the Skyraider entered a roll, recovering with considerable loss of height.
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