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Sunday, February 6, 2011
Wing and a Prayer
This training film demonstrates specific techniques for landing B-24 Liberators that have sustained a wide variety of damage in differing conditions, including water landings.
Regards — Cliff
3 comments:
Jack Mitchell
said...
As a kid, I loved watching WWII documentary based shows, like World at War and Victory at Sea.
And, anything from Japan with Godzilla or some rubber monster in it. ;v)
"Don't drop the nose like that"... Too funny. (Always easiest to laugh when you know everyone was ok). I also liked "swerve may be entirely elminated by shooting out the remaining good main gear tire".
The most amazing parts were the nose gunner stepping out unhurt after shearing off the stabilizer of that other plane in a midair collision, and the apparent (at 2:08) successful return flight in the absence of almost an entire wing. (Can this be possible? Or is this an optical illusion--I would assume a plane couldn't remain airborne without both wings).
A quick few comments...one way to "avoid the swerve" was...and still is...to skid the plane toward the inflated tire.....it blows it....did that one time in a Cessna 310J....took four days to get my underwear off...
Somewhere in my fuzzy memory is a picture of a B-17 that returned to Jolly Old with a pretty good portion of a Me 109 embedded against the vertical stab.....the German of course didn't complete the trip alive....
3 comments:
As a kid, I loved watching WWII documentary based shows, like World at War and Victory at Sea.
And, anything from Japan with Godzilla or some rubber monster in it. ;v)
"Don't drop the nose like that"... Too funny. (Always easiest to laugh when you know everyone was ok). I also liked "swerve may be entirely elminated by shooting out the remaining good main gear tire".
The most amazing parts were the nose gunner stepping out unhurt after shearing off the stabilizer of that other plane in a midair collision, and the apparent (at 2:08) successful return flight in the absence of almost an entire wing. (Can this be possible? Or is this an optical illusion--I would assume a plane couldn't remain airborne without both wings).
Great link!
A quick few comments...one way to "avoid the swerve" was...and still is...to skid the plane toward the inflated tire.....it blows it....did that one time in a Cessna 310J....took four days to get my underwear off...
Somewhere in my fuzzy memory is a picture of a B-17 that returned to Jolly Old with a pretty good portion of a Me 109 embedded against the vertical stab.....the German of course didn't complete the trip alive....
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