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Title: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: milnko on August 04, 2003, 08:56:08 AM

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.

Title: Re: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: Ripsnort on August 04, 2003, 09:04:28 AM

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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 :(

Title: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: Eagler on August 04, 2003, 09:23:23 AM

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

Title: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: gofaster on August 04, 2003, 09:51:29 AM

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.

Title: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: Dinger on August 04, 2003, 10:35:10 AM

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

Title: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: Chaos68 on August 04, 2003, 01:52:52 PM

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?

Title: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: MrLars on August 04, 2003, 02:40:32 PM

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.

Title: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: Eagler on August 04, 2003, 02:57:30 PM

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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

Title: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: icemaw on August 04, 2003, 05:39:39 PM

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.

Title: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: B17Skull12 on August 04, 2003, 07:37:06 PM

i watch most of it

Title: "Broken Wings" on The History Channel
Post by: rpm on August 04, 2003, 11:06:16 PM

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.