Frankenstein Was Right!
Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:19 pm
Fire is bad!!
F6F-5 #58 VF-12 USS Randolph June 1945. Belly shackles failed and drop tank went through the prop....Pilot OK
F6F-5 #58 VF-12 USS Randolph June 1945. Belly shackles failed and drop tank went through the prop....Pilot OK
fuel supply ..off..check...ignition ..off...check...
Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:43 pm
...oh the hell with this post flight crap...im outa here! 
Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:08 pm
Wow, look at the fuselage above the national insignia. Is that blur from the heat and/or other camera phenom ... or is it possible its actually wrinkled from rapid thermo-expansion from the fire?? Either way, not a place I'd like to be!
Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:34 pm
hmmmn, so that's what happens when you use an aircraft engine & propeller to fan a full drop tank worth of hi-test av gas over hot exhaust stubs; mobile blast furnace......
the heat must have been unbelievably intense for the pilot, I'm glad he got out ok. He must have felt like a bbq hotdog for a few moments there....
greg v.
the heat must have been unbelievably intense for the pilot, I'm glad he got out ok. He must have felt like a bbq hotdog for a few moments there....
greg v.
Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:33 am
Crew29 wrote:Wow, look at the fuselage above the national insignia. Is that blur from the heat and/or other camera phenom ... or is it possible its actually wrinkled from rapid thermo-expansion from the fire?? Either way, not a place I'd like to be!
Tweaked from the fire.
Gary