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Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: 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.

Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: SOB on September 25, 2003, 10:05:51 PM

Somebody tripped me!

(http://www.matthoffman.us/dl/nicelanding.jpg)

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

Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: Ecke-109- on September 26, 2003, 04:02:43 AM

Hallo Righty,

here you can upload your pix.
Picture Hangar (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/)

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

Ecke

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

Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: Righty on September 26, 2003, 08:11:10 AM

thanks for that site ECKE.  I hope this works

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_130_1064581730.jpg)

Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: Dead Man Flying 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

Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: MotorOil 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.

:lol

Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: LLv34 Jarsci 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.

Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: Siaf__csf on September 26, 2003, 02:31:43 PM

(http://zem.squidly.org/bsod/images/bsod-2.jpg)

A big bad one

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

Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: Innominate on September 26, 2003, 05:30:46 PM

(http://death.innomi.com/uploads/mosscrash.jpg)

Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: Honch 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.


(http://www.romiti.org/wesayni/AH/p40E.jpg)


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

Title: Post your bad crashes!
Post by: Rutilant on September 26, 2003, 10:08:05 PM

Pic's a no show, Honch