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Offline F22RaptorDude

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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2010, 08:08:46 PM »
Kid 1: Look a dogfight.
Kid 2: Whats that flying towards us?
Kid 1: A plane?
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Kid 1: BOBBY NO!!!!
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #16 on: October 25, 2010, 08:35:35 PM »
Quote from: Sundiver on October 25, 2010, 10:51:27 AM
Just wondering if anyone has ever seen estimates or actual stats on how many people were injured or killed by falling drop tanks in WWII? I mean it'd just be rude to have one of those fall through your bedroom from 25k when you were in the middle of something, yanno? ;)

I will have that question in my head for years.
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #17 on: October 26, 2010, 12:42:54 AM »
Quote from: F22RaptorDude on October 25, 2010, 08:08:46 PM
Kid 1: Look a dogfight.
Kid 2: Whats that flying towards us?
Kid 1: A plane?
*Smash*
Kid 1: BOBBY NO!!!!

Made me chuckle. Would have been funnier if you used Billy instead.
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #18 on: October 26, 2010, 02:25:57 AM »
Wonder what the average hit/miss ratio was...  Wonder where all those extra bullets went...
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #19 on: October 26, 2010, 06:30:42 AM »
haha oh well, i'm good with jokes that go like that with kid 1 and kid 2 kind of deal, this one sucked in my eyes tho
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #20 on: October 26, 2010, 10:53:08 AM »
Quote from: sluggish on October 26, 2010, 02:25:57 AM
Wonder what the average hit/miss ratio was...  Wonder where all those extra bullets went...

They disappeared just like the do in our game...where else do you think HTC got the information for disappearing bullets from.
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #21 on: October 26, 2010, 02:33:24 PM »
Quote from: uptown on October 25, 2010, 11:16:11 AM
To expand on what BJ said, I found this pic of DTs from possibly a B52 where the locals made boats out of them  :lol There wasn't any mention on deaths from them falling though.

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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #22 on: October 26, 2010, 05:57:01 PM »
     We had a couple of Phantom pilots who served in RVN who were still flying in the early 80s.
One guy named Guttenrichenheimenberger <or something like that...we just called him Major
G+13  :D>  told a neat story about attacking boats with an F4 incountry.  Apparently he got all
of them but one but ran out of ordnance.  He decided to drop a wingtank on it just for giggles.

     The guy in the boat had just seen all his buddies get wiped out and then the jet comes back
and drops what looks like the biggest bomb he's ever seen at HIM!  G+13 said he wasn't even close,
but the guy in the boat bailed and the boat continued to sail on down the river.  :rofl
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #23 on: October 27, 2010, 12:19:22 AM »
There were probably a whole bunch of bombs falling with the fuel tanks (during WWII that is), and I don't think people on the receiving end cared what exactly it was. Would be interesting to find out though.
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #24 on: October 27, 2010, 02:16:50 AM »
Quote from: uptown on October 25, 2010, 11:16:11 AM
To expand on what BJ said, I found this pic of DTs from possibly a B52 where the locals made boats out of them  :lol There wasn't any mention on deaths from them falling though.

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I do not think those tanks were dropped... Think about it a 100-200 lb Tank (without fuel) falls say 10,000 feet, I do not think there would be much left to make a boat out of, the tanks in the picture are from surplus..
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #25 on: October 27, 2010, 02:42:38 AM »
Quote from: captain1ma on October 25, 2010, 05:37:27 PM
i read somewhere that the drop tanks in WW2 were made from paper. dont know if its fact or not

Some were, some weren't.  The drop tanks for the P-38 were turned into race cars after the war.

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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #26 on: October 27, 2010, 03:10:53 AM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on October 27, 2010, 02:42:38 AM
Some were, some weren't.  The drop tanks for the P-38 were turned into race cars after the war.

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Really? I'd love to see some pictures!

.. Not saying I don't believe you or anything, I just want to see what they'd have looked like  :D
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #27 on: October 27, 2010, 03:14:00 AM »
Where did all the 0.5 bullets from the B17/24s land?
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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #28 on: October 27, 2010, 03:48:18 AM »
Quote from: EskimoJoe on October 27, 2010, 03:10:53 AM
Really? I'd love to see some pictures!

.. Not saying I don't believe you or anything, I just want to see what they'd have looked like  :D

http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z15325/Tom-Beatty-Belly-Tank-Lakester.aspx
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/02/23/bellytanker-from-the-burbs/

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Re: Drop Tank Deaths
« Reply #29 on: October 27, 2010, 03:51:43 AM »
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