Who Likes Aircraft ?

[snakeyes]

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Richard Cranium]

Those landing thrusters must do a job on the blacktop.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Those planes look in remarkable shape for being underwater. What's the story on them?

 

[MoparLeo]

I don't think they care what the landing area looks like when they are doing a rescue.

 

[Basket case]

several WWII planes have been pulled from the Great Lakes where we had training carriers during the war. Since the Great Lakes are fresh water, no salt corrosion. I remember reading about an SBD Dauntless dive bomber, when after recovery, they checked the battery, and it held a charge. Those planes from the Lexington, are down two miles, and there is no oxygen. They look like they have only been down there a few days.

 

[Photon440]

Those landing thrusters must do a job on the blacktop.

You're probably right on that but for the intended purpose,
1. There probably wasn't much blacktop on a soccer field stadium in Tehran, and
2. I don't think the US Military cared.

Final flight crash:

 

[DeltaV]

 

[DeltaV]

General Dynamics/Fort Worth Division F-16XL

 

[DeltaV]

Convair B-58 Hustler

 

[DeltaV]

TU-144 Concordski

 

[DeltaV]

 

[Richard Cranium]

Blue Angels from inside the cockpit.....


https://www.youtube.com/embed/u4D0yx4DvBk?rel=0

 

[68gtxman]

I think I saw that recovered lane in Niagara Falls (or Buffalo?). It was in the Curtis factory museum. They put it back together for display (not restored, just pieces back in the right spots). Pretty cool what survived in the swamp.

 

[68gtxman]

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I saw a Vulcan in the mid 1980s at Andrews AFB. It’s flyover was something else! What a weird looking bird in flight. It was kind of like Batman’s Plane.

 

[Basket case]

 

[Auggie56]

I think I saw that recovered lane in Niagara Falls (or Buffalo?). It was in the Curtis factory museum. They put it back together for display (not restored, just pieces back in the right spots). Pretty cool what survived in the swamp.

This is the recovery of a WW2 Soviet pilots remains from a crashed lend lease P-40. Re-watch the video, there are his military personal documents shown.

 

[Photon440]

Air Canada's last DC-9 flight..in 2002. This aircraft was built in 1968 and made 72,464 take-offs. It is currently in the Canadian Aviation and Space museum.

 

[68gtxman]

This is the recovery of a WW2 Soviet pilots remains from a crashed lend lease P-40. Re-watch the video, there are his military personal documents shown.

Yes, I watched the video. His plane is the one I believe I saw in the museum of which I spoke. It was a lend-lease Curtiss plane and it was recovered somewhere over in Russia or thereabouts. The museum had some of the pilot’s personal effects with the plane. It was amazing how well some of the “soft” things, like paper survived the swamp. How did they even find the plane in that swamp, as it seemed to be so deep in it.

I just searched the Curtiss Museum website and it doesn’t mention the aircraft that I am referring to. Maybe it was on-loan and has since been returned, or maybe my recollection is flawed. Though I did ask my wife and she recalled the plane too.

 

[Auggie56]