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F6F-5 #58 VF-12 USS Randolph June 1945. Belly shackles failed and drop tank went through the prop....Pilot OK 8)

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...oh the hell with this post flight crap...im outa here! :D

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P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.

S: Took hammer away from midget.
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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!
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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....

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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.

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