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Offline Bodhi

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F4u-4 Crash
« on: May 19, 2014, 07:14:21 AM »
At least Jim is ok.  So sad to see it happen, it breaks my heart in a way after I spent so much time with that bird.



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Offline ozrocker

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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2014, 07:16:43 AM »
Take comfort that pilot is ok and plane will fly again :aok



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Offline Bodhi

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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2014, 07:52:04 AM »
It's all about Jim, in the grand scheme of things, the plane is inconsequential.
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2014, 08:38:01 AM »
Ground loop? The notoriety didn't come from nowhere it seems...
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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2014, 09:01:44 AM »
Glad he is Ok but with 3 runways to use why was he landing with a 30kt crosswind?
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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2014, 12:19:07 PM »
Good to see he is Ok, the damage will give the builder/rebuilders something to do, sure it will fly again.
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Offline GScholz

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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2014, 03:44:54 PM »
Plane looks fixable... but not cheap. Glad the pilot is OK... Hope someone kicks him in the nut sack for fudging it up though (if he hasn't done it himself already).
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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2014, 03:57:56 PM »
Quote from: GScholz on May 19, 2014, 03:44:54 PM
Plane looks fixable... but not cheap. Glad the pilot is OK... Hope someone kicks him in the nut sack for fudging it up though (if he hasn't done it himself already).

Let's not go beating the pilot up before we know the cause of the accident.  Sometimes things happen that leaves even Chuck Yeager with few options.
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Offline Nath[BDP]

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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2014, 05:00:50 PM »
airshows  disasters waiting to happen
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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2014, 05:57:49 PM »
Luckily I got to see her fly twice this year. This is from the first time:



If I recall right this plane has been crashed before, I believe Jim's father was one piloting it then and he perished in the crash. Jim then rebuilt the corsair and has been flying it ever since.
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Offline Puma44

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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2014, 06:01:32 PM »
Quote from: colmbo on May 19, 2014, 03:57:56 PM
Let's not go beating the pilot up before we know the cause of the accident.  Sometimes things happen that leaves even Chuck Yeager with few options.
Spot on Columbo.  :aok
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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2014, 06:12:35 PM »
Quote from: Nath[BDP] on May 19, 2014, 05:00:50 PM
Life's a  disaster waiting to happen

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Offline pembquist

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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2014, 07:46:25 PM »
Pets are an inevitable tragedy.
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Offline bozon

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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2014, 02:03:44 AM »
That sucks.
He is off the runway by just a few meters and it counts as a ditch  :(
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Re: F4u-4 Crash
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2014, 07:49:54 AM »
Glad the pilot is ok.  Nice that the plane is, relatively, ok.
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