Corsair crash at airshow

[RoGenT]

I don't recall anyone ever posting this video on here before, and hopefully skuzzy doesn't mind me posting in here since this section is the most active.  The pilot escaped but what a waste to beautiful and historic plane


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c63_1238792931

[TwinBoom]

Reno

[Widewing]

Oil fires like he had can usually be blown out... Assuming you have the sand to nose it over and dive; and do so before the fire burns off the elevator fabric.

Notice that the fire extinguished as the F4U picked up speed in the dive.

This guy did the smart thing.


My regards,

Widewing

[Banshee7]

I kinda feel bad for the guy...now he has to pay another couple Million to get another one

[Karnak]

Glad the pilot made it out.

[daddog]

Wow.

[SEraider]

I kinda feel bad for the guy...now he has to pay another couple Million to get another one

 

He has insurance.  That's manditory i understand.

[Motherland]

Wow, that's terrible.

[Guppy35]

One request.  If it's old film, say it.  I thought it was today.  That was a heavily modified Corsair, but not the Super Corsair F2G.  There is one of those flying and I thought that was the bird in question.  Had me worried we'd lost another

[crazyivan]

Now I know what my cartoon plane would look like in RL. Yes, glad to see the pilot got out.

[CAP1]

One request.  If it's old film, say it.  I thought it was today.  That was a heavily modified Corsair, but not the Super Corsair F2G.  There is one of those flying and I thought that was the bird in question.  Had me worried we'd lost another

we lost a tbm avenger here in new jersey last month. on a test flight, the pilot heard a "bang", the fire....he managed to turn the plane back, and land it, but there was no fd on millville airport....so it still burned to the ground. it was one i had seen in airshows at mcguire afb. was a beautiful aircraft. the pilot got out with burns on his chest and hands, otherwise ok.

[thndregg]

 

[RoGenT]

As you could tell from the video, there wasn't much detail about when it happened, and where, although Twinboom has said Reno. I just came across it today so i don't know if it has been there for while or just recently.

[Shuffler]

It's old I saw it about a year a go.

[RoGenT]

It's old I saw it about a year a go.

Ah okay. I go to liveleak all the time but this was first time I saw it so I thought maybe it was more recent.