Navy F6F-5s vs Germany

[morfiend]

Same with the red cloth the RAF glued over the gun ports on their fighters.

  Yup,I was told by an old RCAF guy that when I saw the guns were taped I knew I was good to go!


   

[danny76]

Here's an interesting sequence, showing why you can't lower elevators during a recovery (landing) evolution. In this case, aboard a CVE.

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I would suggest this guy dropping into the open elevator had a few choice words for whomever lowered it. You can almost see the WTF moment in pic 2.

It'd be like pulling into your garage and there being a 20 foot deep hole.

Hope he survived!

[Bruv119]

That set up was a blast, remember shooting storchita down over and over many times in my British skinned F6.

 

bravo.   

[Widewing]

I would suggest this guy dropping into the open elevator had a few choice words for whomever lowered it. You can almost see the WTF moment in pic 2.

It'd be like pulling into your garage and there being a 20 foot deep hole.

Hope he survived!

The pilot was uninjured....

[GScholz]

... but pissed!