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[383MovingViolation]

20 years USAF and I love airplanes. Great pictures.

 

[Bladecutter]

20 years USAF and I love airplanes. Great pictures.

From all of Us.....Thanx Mate.....You can buzz at me anytime about Your experiences, types ....Yes i Love Airplanes. Smiles

 

[fwi]

The future of aviation?............NOT!

 

[Bladecutter]

The future of aviation?............NOT!
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Too bad about DC-10's......i rode on a Lockheed 1011 once.....not near gross, a slug on rotation.....it rotated, but it initially did not climb off deck worth a dogs ***. ...would nit have wanted to lose an engine in blue line.....felt like it would havr sunk fast.......i remember the problem with pylons on DC-10's eas inferior R & R 's.....not taking load off pins evenly, oblonging & fracturing holes in pylons.......good airplanes that suffered only maintenenance errors..........imo........more inaccurate media hyperbole it fell victim to.........muckraking fanatics

 

[Photon440]

I dunno Blade, I always preferred the L-1011 myself. Higher cruise and top speed than the DC-10 and the rear engine was nicely blended in. I remember the cargo hatches blowing out of the DC-10 though.

 

[MOPOWER871]

 

[MOPOWER871]

SAD DAY FOR THE RED,WHITE AND BLUE ANGLES

 

[YY1]

What are the odds that a Blue Angel and a Thunderbird crash on the same day?

That's just crazy. Those are the best pilots in the world.

RIP to the Navy/Marine pilot.

I saw the Blue Angels in F4's and the Thunderbirds in T-38's.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Crazy huh?
Lot of "talk" here today (Edwards AFB) about yesterday.
Devastating day, losing a pilot is quite a loss (Naval Aviator)
God bless his family and friends

 

[MOPOWER871]

This is the P-47 "Jacky's Revenge "that crashed landed into the Hudson river. The plane was recovered by the Army Corp of Engineers. Pilot Bill Gordon could not free himself from his saftey belts and drown. The P-47 was one of if not the heaviest single engine fighter of WW II. The plane sank in seconds.
This wonderful aircrafts home was the American Air Power Museum at Republic Airport in Farmindale N.Y.home of the P-47 9,000 where built here at a cost of 85,000 each
http://americanairpowermuseum.com/
This flying museum is 15 min from my home.The sound of that Pratt & Whitney 18 cylinder R-2800 Double Wasp engine making 2600 horsepower was music to my ears. Hope they will be able to salvage her RIP Mr Gordon.

 

[Basket case]

sad times for the Warbird community and the blue Angels.

 

[Bladecutter]

This is the P-47 "Jacky's Revenge "that crashed landed into the Hudson river. The plane was recovered by the Army Corp of Engineers. Pilot Bill Gordon could not free himself from his saftey belts and drown. The P-47 was one of if not the heaviest single engine fighter of WW II. The plane sank in seconds.
This wonderful aircrafts home was the American Air Power Museum at Republic Airport in Farmindale N.Y.home of the P-47 9,000 where built here at a cost of 85,000 each
http://americanairpowermuseum.com/
This flying museum is 15 min from my home.The sound of that Pratt & Whitney 18 cylinder R-2800 Double Wasp engine making 2600 horsepower was music to my ears. Hope they will be able to salvage her RIP Mr Gordon.

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I wonder if they tried to crank the flaps up?? Whats with craning it onto bow.....why not off set it to a bar
ge.......The Pilot obviously did a beautiful, finessed job of ditching, flared shallo, nice & slow, not tearing deployed flaps off, apparently putting the Bird before Himself. Looks like a some what flaky salvage job to me. My guess is the Bird'll be back in air by spring if not sooner.
ive picked 15 belly ins up off runway in a 5 yr span, at one airport during nights....never Fed intervention, saving owners all sorts of headache...we never drug the birds and we never set them down without proper cradling, elevating above any appendages......that bow shot is just scary.....just wrong. i;; bet no one thought to crank the damn flaps up. Kind of Dis Honors Bill Gordon's efforts @ executing a nice job of ditching aircraft.
As MOPOWER illustrated, P-47 is a heavy and rather largish plane, but was wicked fast & agile in spite of the fact....& Timex Hell for Stout, dependable, capable of sustaining damage & keep working
looks to me like the left aileron was damaged by the roof of the boats focsle or forecastle and it sure look to be setting on trailing edges of flaps....i wouldnt be a happy camper if that were mine....id be up init with someone.

 

[Photon440]

Looks like the U.S. Army had a hand in the recovery:

 

[Bladecutter]

Maybe im wrong. Still seems to me that rig, boat is too small for job, i still question why flaps werent pulled up Or Removed? The last shot of MO's, the rear fuse is sitting on the raised edge, which doesnt look to be very tall.....it looks to be sitting with flaps contacting surface.....i still think planning could have been better.....and a bigger boat should have been used.......maybe two crane boats lifting together, in between them and slip a flat barge under plane, with jacks....like jacks for annuals, doing gear swings. Hey im a nobody with opinions like other nobodies.....but im sticking to them.
But the plane looks to be a srraight forward repair.....it should only be a few months.....is there footage of the actual ditching anywhere? Shape of airplane indicates to me that Pilot was on top of it...leading way in front, hands too full to get himself un hooked.......He put the plane in as gently as He could,, in face of His own end......THAT IS a PILOT.....keep flying it, even if the wings are tore off. Never knew of Him by Name...i know of the plane.....RIP Bill Gordon.
Went out with Guns Blazing.....taking care of bizniss........imo
The polished P-51, Satuday Night Special, is a bird that was put down in a cow pasture in Chino in mid 90's...i knew the Guy who bought & had rebuilt by a then CNO warbird outfit called Square One.....90 percent new skin, wanted me to quote a sand & polish on it.....i turned down. Point is, plane was in much worse shape than what the
P-47 appears to be in.....sans the water logging....but airframe was bent, distorted......that bird was back flying in less than a year.......so should this one be.

 

[Basket case]

just be thankful the same idiots that destroyed a fully intact PBY just a few feet off shore last year didn't have a hand in this recovery.

 

[Bladecutter]

just be thankful the same idiots that destroyed a fully intact PBY just a few feet off shore last year didn't have a hand in this recovery.

Yuh, i saw that....oy vey!
Airplanes are like Strong Women....Very Fragile to improper handling.....

 

[MOPOWER871]

KNOW THE PROBLEM IS THE FAA & THE INSURANCE COMPANY . HOW LONG BEFORE THEY RELEASE THE PLANE,SHE'S SITTING IN A HANGER, THEY GOT THE LANDING GEAR DOWN AND IT IS STANDING OWN ITS OWN. THE PLACE WHERE SHE LANDED IN THE HUDSON IS SALTWATER ! JUST FOUND THESE PICS I TOOK OF BILL GORDON DOING A PRE FLIGHT FROM LAST YEAR

 

[Photon440]

 

[Bladecutter]

Goliath Antonov

 

[Bladecutter]

Two of my favorite Russian Birds...the turbo-prop Bear & the SST.