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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Shaky on March 04, 2007, 02:20:31 PM
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Looks like he stayed with it till it started burning, then turned away from the crowd and got out....
Corsair bail out (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9161106816384837258)
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Impressive.
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WOW,
even knowing he made it out before watching didn't help I was still saying to myself get out get out!
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bummer that yet another vintage aircraft gets destroyed at an air race.
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Originally posted by Bodhi
bummer that yet another vintage aircraft gets destroyed at an air race.
maybe they'll stop racing when some of the lancairs get bigged up enuff to whup em
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It was kind of ironic that as the abadoned F4U gained speed, the fire appeared to be extinguished. Looked like an oil fire, which can often be extinguished by increasing speed.
That said, the pilot did the right thing by getting out.
My regards,
Widewing
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Hate to see it. You know, we can always get another pilot, but these planes are non replaceable :aok
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Originally posted by Bodhi
bummer that yet another vintage aircraft gets destroyed at an air race.
Yep.
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damn shame. glad the pilot was able to bail safely. was there an LTAR in the audience?
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Originally posted by storch
damn shame. glad the pilot was able to bail safely. was there an LTAR in the audience?
lol thats just funny right there. :rofl :rofl
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That video reminds me of the time I flew wingman for wardog. Oh those were the days, was alot of fun with AH friends.
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I noticed that the plane extinguished itself in its last dive. However, the flames seemed to originate from infront and below of the cockpit. Had the pilot slowed down to land it, he probably would have had a fire in the cockpit.
Greg Boyington suffered an engine fire in his Corsair during combat with some Japanese Zeros. Flames came into the cockpit and burned his face. He described the cockpit as being so hot that it felt like a 'blast furnace'.
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Originally posted by Bodhi
bummer that yet another vintage aircraft gets destroyed at an air race.
Well, I'm torn on this one...on one hand it sucks to see a warbird go down, OTOH, they were made to FLY, dammit!
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What was the other plane p51?
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Other plane looked a bit like a sea fury to me but I wasn't watching it too closely.
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Aquashrimp, I don't know anything about airplane anatomy, but those flames could come from further upstream the airflow, and only ignite where we see them.
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I don't know how those guys can do that, Christ, I've seen inside modern aircraft cockpits and they look small and cramped enough, gawd knows what it must have been like to be inside that WW2 Cockpit.
I mean, can you imagine, trying to get yourself out of that cockpit?
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Adapt or die :)
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The egress tech in me wonders if they don't have some time of emergancy canopy release. After that a quick jump and pull of the cord (possibly also automatic) would take care of the rest.
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when the flames are catching alight, and you get streams of intermitant flame igniting and billowing backwards, this effect ive seen in the game here and it looks spot on!
you know, before the flames really take hold, and its spraying out fireballs of lit fuel every 2 seconds or so.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
The egress tech in me wonders if they don't have some time of emergancy canopy release. After that a quick jump and pull of the cord (possibly also automatic) would take care of the rest.
Hopefully Widewing sees this and weighs in on it, Just the thought of being stuck in what must be a small tight space like that and trying to get out and also at the same time, trying to fly it, gives me the shivers.
At least the modern Fighter Jet boys can pull the cord and they're set,
That Pilot must have had nerves of steel.
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Originally posted by Hawco
Hopefully Widewing sees this and weighs in on it, Just the thought of being stuck in what must be a small tight space like that and trying to get out and also at the same time, trying to fly it, gives me the shivers.
At least the modern Fighter Jet boys can pull the cord and they're set,
That Pilot must have had nerves of steel.
I think this was the supercorsair.
It's not close to stock. I think it has a whole redesigned canopy. So no telling how it opened.
Wartime corsairs had a jetisonable canopy, you had to pull the pins on both sides at the same time or it would get stuck(I recall from a book on the corsair).
The later models had a one lever release.
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Originally posted by storch
damn shame. glad the pilot was able to bail safely. was there an LTAR in the audience?
No. This plane was not "no pinged."
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Originally posted by Shaky
Well, I'm torn on this one...on one hand it sucks to see a warbird go down, OTOH, they were made to FLY, dammit!
Agreed they were made to fly, but now there's an obligation to history to preserve our past.
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(http://www.pioneertelephonecoop.com/~fitzrr/supcrs1.jpg)
Was this the plane?
I love seeing them fly. I don't really care for the way the racers chop them up like this. On the other hand it is their money, and I am sure if the bird lives it could be put back to looking like a real warbird again.
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I don't obligate myself to abstract thoughts very often.
It looks as though he might have pulled the old roll and dump maneuver; pop the canopy, roll the plane, and fall out.
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The Super Corsair caught fire and crashed at the Phoenix 500 Unlimited Air Race on March 19, 1994. Pilot Kevin Eldridge struck the left horizontal stabilizer and was seriously injured as he exited the flaming airplane.
I didn't know it was that long ago.
From this page (http://www.air-and-space.com/Goodyear%20F2G.htm)