Author Topic: F4U Bailout-Reno (Read 903 times)

moot · « **Reply #15 on:** March 05, 2007, 08:16:23 AM »

Aquashrimp, I don't know anything about airplane anatomy, but those flames could come from further upstream the airflow, and only ignite where we see them.

Hawco · « **Reply #16 on:** March 05, 2007, 11:23:20 AM »

I don't know how those guys can do that, Christ, I've seen inside modern aircraft cockpits and they look small and cramped enough, gawd knows what it must have been like to be inside that WW2 Cockpit.
I mean, can you imagine, trying to get yourself out of that cockpit?

moot · « **Reply #17 on:** March 05, 2007, 12:00:56 PM »

Adapt or die

Gunslinger · « **Reply #18 on:** March 05, 2007, 12:05:20 PM »

The egress tech in me wonders if they don't have some time of emergancy canopy release. After that a quick jump and pull of the cord (possibly also automatic) would take care of the rest.

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #19 on:** March 05, 2007, 12:28:31 PM »

when the flames are catching alight, and you get streams of intermitant flame igniting and billowing backwards, this effect ive seen in the game here and it looks spot on!

you know, before the flames really take hold, and its spraying out fireballs of lit fuel every 2 seconds or so.

Hawco · « **Reply #20 on:** March 05, 2007, 12:57:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
The egress tech in me wonders if they don't have some time of emergancy canopy release. After that a quick jump and pull of the cord (possibly also automatic) would take care of the rest.

Hopefully Widewing sees this and weighs in on it, Just the thought of being stuck in what must be a small tight space like that and trying to get out and also at the same time, trying to fly it, gives me the shivers.
At least the modern Fighter Jet boys can pull the cord and they're set,
That Pilot must have had nerves of steel.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 05, 2007, 01:46:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Hawco
Hopefully Widewing sees this and weighs in on it, Just the thought of being stuck in what must be a small tight space like that and trying to get out and also at the same time, trying to fly it, gives me the shivers.
At least the modern Fighter Jet boys can pull the cord and they're set,
That Pilot must have had nerves of steel.

I think this was the supercorsair.

It's not close to stock. I think it has a whole redesigned canopy. So no telling how it opened.

Wartime corsairs had a jetisonable canopy, you had to pull the pins on both sides at the same time or it would get stuck(I recall from a book on the corsair).

The later models had a one lever release.

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 05, 2007, 01:57:21 PM »

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Originally posted by storch
damn shame. glad the pilot was able to bail safely. was there an LTAR in the audience?

No. This plane was not "no pinged."

Carrel · « **Reply #23 on:** March 05, 2007, 05:09:53 PM »

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Originally posted by Shaky
Well, I'm torn on this one...on one hand it sucks to see a warbird go down, OTOH, they were made to FLY, dammit!

Agreed they were made to fly, but now there's an obligation to history to preserve our past.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #24 on:** March 05, 2007, 05:31:16 PM »

Was this the plane?

I love seeing them fly. I don't really care for the way the racers chop them up like this. On the other hand it is their money, and I am sure if the bird lives it could be put back to looking like a real warbird again.

OOZ662 · « **Reply #25 on:** March 05, 2007, 05:36:40 PM »

I don't obligate myself to abstract thoughts very often.

It looks as though he might have pulled the old roll and dump maneuver; pop the canopy, roll the plane, and fall out.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 05, 2007, 05:54:42 PM »

The Super Corsair caught fire and crashed at the Phoenix 500 Unlimited Air Race on March 19, 1994. Pilot Kevin Eldridge struck the left horizontal stabilizer and was seriously injured as he exited the flaming airplane.

I didn't know it was that long ago.

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