Sunday, June 21, 2020

File this one under "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing."


7 comments:

  1. Silly pilot. If he hadn't run into that cable he wouldn't have wound up like that.

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  2. Guessing this is not a mid in action photo and it ended up in that position. If so that is amazing

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  3. ...AND...that's why the F4s stuck to the land bases...

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    1. They were on carriers after the Brits figured out to make a turning approach so they could see the deck until straightening out at the last seconds.
      https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/268950-british-royal-navy-faa-corsair-i-and-ii/

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  4. I thought once they figured out the undercarriage had too much bounce the Corsairs were fine for carriers.....hell, they all had problems, from Wildcats to Hellcats....I've seen plenty of blown landings that didn't involve Corsairs....

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  5. Mandatory...…...

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  6. "The bent-wing Ensign killer".

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