"Broken Wings" on The History Channel

[milnko]

New show I saw last night. Not half bad.

All about find aircraft that have crashed and finding the site.

Last night highlighted a B-17C wreck site, a P-61 crash site and the search for a P-51 and a P-80 crash sites.

Check it out when ya'll can.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by milnko
New show I saw last night. Not half bad.

All about find aircraft that have crashed and finding the site.

Last night highlighted a B-17C wreck site, a P-61 crash site and the search for a P-51 and a P-80 crash sites.

Check it out when ya'll can.

I started to watch it, then fell asleep

[Eagler]

I watched it, it was ok - hoping they'd find the p51-D off LAX

[gofaster]

I had planned on watching it, but decided to do AH MA instead.  I should've watched the program because the MA was extremely frustrating.

[Dinger]

yeah, but is it a series or a one-off.  It was a 90-minute show.

[Chaos68]

the show was pretty good. Did they find that p51? last i saw they were looking then the dude was looking for a p-61?  ALso i noticed during the p51, they kept showing what looked like a p-40 and talking about a p51... what was that all about?

[MrLars]

The comments by the B-17C crewmember were very interesting.

He talked about how difficult it was trying to bail out while the plane was being bucked and the airframe getting wrenched by the unstable air.
That crash saved many lifes since the weakness of the tail section was exposed and the ventral extention was the fix on later models.

[Eagler]

Originally posted by Chaos68
the show was pretty good. Did they find that p51? last i saw they were looking then the dude was looking for a p-61?  ALso i noticed during the p51, they kept showing what looked like a p-40 and talking about a p51... what was that all about?

they never went back to the p51 story ... assume they are still getting rights and funds to search waters off LAX

the wasp plane they were looking for was a P51-D she was transferring cross country.. problem was they kept showing video of a P51-B or earlier - that is why it resembled a P40 cockpit

[icemaw]

Was a pretty good show.  Aside from the fact he didnt find any crash that the site was not allready known. Was very disapointed with that. Great history tho would be a fun hike or camping trip. Or 4X4 run to the known sites.

[B17Skull12]

i watch most of it

[rpm]

I watched about 1/2 of it but had to turn it off. The "Expert" did'nt appear to know anything except how to find well established crash sites...and act Ghey.