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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Baumer on February 23, 2012, 12:00:46 PM
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Here's a cool sequence of photo's from the Naval Aviation Museum website, it's an F4U-4 recovering aboard our very own USS Randolph CV-15 . I'm glad not all engine oil hits are this bad!
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Well at lest this guy saved his perks!
:salute Baumer
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Could be even worse.....
(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii120/Duggy009/P47-D12thAFO.jpg)
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I like his cool tinted windshield. lol
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Pretty good landing considering.
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LOL Krusty I've seen that one and it's pretty bad, but the Jug didn't land on a carrier. Or risk any perks!
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Can you imagine the whines if they changed the engine oil hits to look like that??? :lol
Would be cool, though, if they looked like that, as long as we could open the canopy and fly looking out around the windscreen kicking a hard side slip on approach!
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Look at the wake in the first pic... some idiot turned the CV. :lol
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I wouldn't mind it. Just let us open the canopy say once you get under a certain speed. 300MPH?
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that dude is bad to the bone he caught #3 wire too!!!!
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Look at the wake in the first pic... some idiot turned the CV. :lol
:rofl You beat me to it!!
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I'd say the ship was turned so the pilot could see his landing platform and also to basically put it as close to under him to make up for some of the visibility lost
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Was just about to mention that those boys all had the option of at least opening the canopy to see outside and could lean just a little bit. Obviously great landing by both of them.
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I'd say the ship was turned so the pilot could see his landing platform and also to basically put it as close to under him to make up for some of the visibility lost
From what I've read it was common practice for landing F4U's even without the oil hit due to the 0 visibility over the nose of the thing.
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The last picture gave me a chuckle. The pilot appears to be sitting there relatively calm looking at the guy off the edge of flight deck as if to say "what's up?"
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From what I've read it was common practice for landing F4U's even without the oil hit due to the 0 visibility over the nose of the thing.
We Americans used the Corsair on land only after trials showed it to be a booger to land on a CV. You can't see over the nose.
The Brits developed the ideal way to land the monster. Come in from 9 o'clock and turn in right before landing. Obviously what this guy was doind. He turned a bit late due to circumstances.
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From what I've read it was common practice for landing F4U's even without the oil hit due to the 0 visibility over the nose of the thing.
The ship diidn't turn, the aircraft was flown on a constant turning approach.
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In the last corsair photo, i like how u can see the right landing gear busted behind the right wing.
All of these would be good 'caption this photos' IMO.
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The ship diidn't turn, the aircraft was flown on a constant turning approach.
I think they were referring to the wake of the boat not being straight...
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I am glad those guys landed safely, and hopefully they survived the war too.
Can you image what that must have been like, and I wonder if they had to literally stand out of their plane at times to see where they were going; probably had to!