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Ball? What ball, the lens didn't come out for a few more years. The LSO must have stumble during the approach.

OK ,new caption.
"You can teach monkeys to fly better than that!"

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ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK.

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Planenutti wrote:


Nutti...I'm pretty sure Jack meant that as humor.

Mudge the humorist

ps. regarding the excerpts from BoB. I watched that with Mrs. Mudge the other night. She'd never seen it before. She made an interesting observation.
She said, "Isn't it too bad they destroyed all those rare planes when they made that movie. Think of all the Me109s and Heinkels that would be around today." I thought that was very perceptive of her.

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Here's the caption which accompanied this official US Navy photo:

Grumman F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighter

Goes over the side of USS Barnes (CVE-20), 22 October 1943, after the pilot attempted to regain flying speed after receiving the "Cut" signal from the Landing Signal Officer. The pilot, Ensign Olinyock, A-V(N), and a crew member, F1c Olin Victor Bulgrin, were killed in this accident. Several other crew members were injured. Note triangular flight deck crash barrier supports partially extended below the plane.


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Don't be so tough on the lovely Mrs. Mudge - I remember thinking the same thing about the P-40s while watching "Tora! Tora! Tora!" when I was a kid...

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Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

That's interesting paint. I don't believe I've ever seen Intermediate Blue cover the whole side like that.

Hey Mudge, you are right. Jack was having some fun and so was I. Why do you think I said that the LSO stumbled, the LSO was the ball back then. No harm, no foul, I will just be more careful from now on.

Chris...I was, obviously, too sincere sounding with the remark I attributed to Mrs. Mudge. She knows, full well, that they were models. We were at Duxford when the filming was discussed by some of the participants and a taped interview with Guy Hamilton.

Just to elaborate on the story a bit, for those of you who may not already know, (though I can't imagine there's anyone on this site who doesn't) the radio control frequencies for those models was so close to the frequencies used by the Duxford taxi drivers, there was quite a bit of trouble with interference that tended to make the models do unusual things during filming.

Mudge the obtuse

I hate it when I have to 'splain my attempts at humor.

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I hate it when your left ball goes center up.

The pilot of the plane was Ens. Eugene Olinzock, he was a replacement pilot in VF-1. The were involved in refresher carrier landings on the Barnes when the accident occured. I believe the BuNo was 25955.

Mac