Recently declasified!!

[Onime No Kyo]

(thanks dt )

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Terminus
Yep. I still remember the footage of an F6F landing on a carrier, and the fuselage
snapping in half right behind the cockpit... Now that's a bad day!

IIRC that guy survived, right?

Yep. The Hellcat didn't even catch fire; just broke clean in half, and that was it...

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Yep. The Hellcat didn't even catch fire; just broke clean in half, and that was it...

Well, it wasnt exactly it. He also hit the island almost head on.

[Terminus]

Well, okay, that too...

[pauk]

ORIGINAL: barnacle bob

Does that mean the Japanese gets TIE fighters?

Nah, only allies gets x-wings - they calling them Corsairs[:D][;)]

[Ursa MAior]

Wonder Lucaas did it intentionally?

TIE = Zero agile, fragile
X-wing = F4F clumsy well defended, big firepower

[Terminus]

Interesting coincidence, eh?

[dtravel]

Well, he did give the ILM people film of WWII dogfights to base their work on.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Interesting coincidence, eh?

This post could mean 3 possible things....

1) You agree with Ursa
2) You dissagree with Ursa
3) Youre Canadian

[BrucePowers]

Somebody sure is a lot better with photoshop than me, or the've got more patience.

[YankeeAirRat]

All USMC aviators are Naval Aviators so they have to carrier qualify during inital training to recieve thier wings of gold. From what reading I have done of the early years of US Naval Aviation, though USMC outfits didn't deploy with carriers that often, they still did at least twice a year try and get time to carrier qual with a fleet carrier. There could of been a number of reasons why the plane went off into the catwalks. The biggest reason that I can think of would be the smaller size of the USS Long Island when compared to the rest of the fleet carriers that most Naval Aviators were used to, on top of that inexperience of the pilot, problems with the engine or controls of the aircraft, again any number of reasons.

[Onime No Kyo]

Well, my question is, if this was an operational accident, what was a Marine plane doing actually "operating" off the LI. Wasnt it a simple ferry mission?

[Terminus]

I'd say so. Especially since the L.I. hardly qualifies as a "fleet" carrier. It was most likely ferrying VMF-211 to Palmyra, and one of the F2's snapped a landing gear leg...

[Speedysteve]

You sure Tubbs wasn't the piolet and the LG couldn't support his weight?

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Terminus
Yep. I still remember the footage of an F6F landing on a carrier, and the fuselage
snapping in half right behind the cockpit... Now that's a bad day!

IIRC that guy survived, right?

Well, in the footage, he was still moving around in the cockpit after the crash. iirc, i think i heard he was (relatively) ok.

[CobraAus]

When do we get our top and side?

from Cobra Aus of course

[donkuchi19]

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress

X-wing? I like the picture of the girl in the defeat Hillary shirt. [&o]

Must vote republican...must vote republican....

Search the site for the babe in the Imagine No Liberals T-Shirt

[Mifune]

What no TIE fighter? [:D]

[barnacle bob]

cool

[dtravel]

ORIGINAL: CobraAus

When do we get our top and side?

from Cobra Aus of course

So what stats do you put in the editor to go along with that art?