Author Topic: Post your bad crashes! (Read 486 times)

Righty · « **on:** September 25, 2003, 09:40:34 PM »

I just landed a P-47 tonight with one landing gear and my engine out. I just wanna see your incredible landings!

I can't post the pic cause i cannot host it on a site.

SOB · « **Reply #1 on:** September 25, 2003, 10:05:51 PM »

Somebody tripped me!

-edit- btw, here's SAW's free image hosting site: http://www.onpoi.net/ah/

Ecke-109- · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2003, 04:02:43 AM »

Hallo Righty,

here you can upload your pix.
Picture Hangar

After uploading, right click on the pic and copy the adress.

Ecke

Edit: Like SOB said....i saw it too late:)

Righty · « **Reply #3 on:** September 26, 2003, 08:11:10 AM »

thanks for that site ECKE. I hope this works

Dead Man Flying · « **Reply #4 on:** September 26, 2003, 08:24:43 AM »

Honch managed to ground loop his P-40 on takeoff one night (on purpose, mind you), putting it straight up and down. It kept right on sliding down the runway in this state. I guess that was the little engine that could.

-- Todd/Leviathn

MotorOil · « **Reply #5 on:** September 26, 2003, 09:27:10 AM »

There's nothing like doing a lip stand after the third attempt to land your damaged F6F on the CV as your squad mates watch. Just as in SOB's post.

LLv34 Jarsci · « **Reply #6 on:** September 26, 2003, 01:12:18 PM »

Once years back I managed to limp back 50 miles in a p-47 which didn't have wingtips (both sides) , oil leak or something leaking, one elevator missing . Had to make 10 mile radius turns to get into the looong final and apply full flaps to keep it up in the air while making final approach. Full throttle thought.. Still it lost altitude quite rapidly. Touchdown speed was the maximum where the flaps still stayed down.

Boy was I bragging about that back then...

Actually it was fun to nurse the plane back.

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #7 on:** September 26, 2003, 02:31:43 PM »

A big bad one

edit: You might have to click 'show picture' to make it show

Innominate · « **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2003, 05:30:46 PM »

Honch · « **Reply #9 on:** September 26, 2003, 05:59:26 PM »

Well, I'm not calling this one a landing, but it was a pretty spectacular crash. Like Lev said, I was demonstrating a ground loop to Silat and Hoggy one night and the result was sort of a 1-1/4 loop. Was pretty funny at the time, 'specially since the engine torque slowly rotated the P40 around for about 10 minutes before finally losing balance.

I remembered to film the last 5 minutes of it if anyone's interested.

Rutilant · « **Reply #10 on:** September 26, 2003, 10:08:05 PM »

Pic's a no show, Honch