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Offline CMC Airboss

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« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2005, 01:17:52 PM »
Photos of the crash site at http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?s=3956113

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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2005, 01:33:21 PM »
Another irreplacable pair gone forever.

Keep em on the ground fellas....
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« Reply #17 on: October 11, 2005, 02:01:14 PM »
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Another irreplacable pair gone forever.

Keep em on the ground fellas....


When you invest the monies / time required to keep em flying, then you can say that.
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« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2005, 02:08:32 PM »
Is it possible when restoring an aircraft, to 3D scan every piece, so there is a computer record of every piece that goes into an airplane?    That way, a completely new plane could be theoretically made from the 3D part information?

Just wondering if that's even possible, or just cost prohibitive.

What'd they build something like 15,000 Hellcats?   And so few survive.
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« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2005, 05:35:01 PM »
There are currently drawings available to all major US aircraft.  They are what we use when we rebuild the aircraft to begin with.
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« Reply #20 on: October 11, 2005, 05:53:20 PM »
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I think you need to wait for the FAA report before you make any statements regarding the crash.  

Obviously the new'sees are so full of accurate information....


That's true. I heard a couple of eyewitnesses say it sounded rough, but they might not have known what it was supposed to sound like either.
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« Reply #21 on: October 11, 2005, 06:23:53 PM »
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...What'd they build something like 15,000 Hellcats?   And so few survive.


I saw a documentary a couple of months ago about early air to air missles.
The test footage was of dozens of WWII fighters used as test drones, mostly Hellcats it seemed.
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2005, 02:05:57 AM »
A pilot that old could have just had a stroke or something midair. Not necessarily a technical problem.
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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2005, 12:26:22 PM »
rare and intensely valuable aircraft MUST be preserved.  If flying them means eventually losing ALL of them then GROUND them NOW.

and I dont have to invest a damned penny to feel strongly that I am correct in my opinion.

FWIW, build and crash all the replicas you want.  I love to see planes fly too, but those truly rare and irreplacable aircraft MUST be preserved.
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« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2005, 12:34:14 PM »
yeager if and when i get to build and fly my own warbird..u dam well sure ill fly the thing..

how many in your opinion..should we keep on the ground...1 ...2   20 ...100?
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« Reply #25 on: October 12, 2005, 12:46:00 PM »
"rare and intensely valuable aircraft MUST be preserved. If flying them means eventually losing ALL of them then GROUND them NOW."

What makes one of thousands of F6F's special?  Just because it's old?  If they run out of airframes, eventually someone will build more (witness new production of FW-190's and Yaks).  Some random airplane off a production line in 1945 is no more signifigant than some random airplane off a production line last week.

You say fly replicas.  I ask you--what can a production F6F do sitting in a museum, that a replica couldn't?  Put the non-flyable replicas in the museums.  

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« Reply #26 on: October 12, 2005, 01:07:22 PM »
F6Fs seem to me to be more rare than other pursuit type Warbirds.
In museums I've encoutered every major type of USAAF & USN fighter except this one.
I've even met 190D-13 in two different places, but still no Hellcat.
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Offline indy007

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« Reply #27 on: October 12, 2005, 01:32:46 PM »
Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston hosts the entire line of cats. Only 1 of 2 museums with that kind of collection. Really glad Rita didn't flatten it.
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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #28 on: October 12, 2005, 01:43:21 PM »
what can a production F6F do sitting in a museum, that a replica couldn't? Put the non-flyable replicas in the museums.
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thats the kind of logic that adds content to the darwin awards......
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« Reply #29 on: October 12, 2005, 01:44:42 PM »
"thats the kind of logic that adds content to the darwin awards......"

Eh?

Try answering my question.


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