MIG On Your Six-Break!
Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:04 am
Close call for a 26th FIS F-80C
Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:23 am
I'm surprised it made it back with the elev jammed down like that.
Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:19 am
Not an issue! notice the tabs and the right hand elevator are also down.
With the control cables disconnected the surfaces will follow mom nature and obey the laws of gravity.
With the control cables disconnected the surfaces will follow mom nature and obey the laws of gravity.
Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:57 am
if you look closely. one bit is up [outboard]and the inboard bit down in line with the RH side elevator.
Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:37 am
Hmmm,
I am guessing that the IB ends are down because the cables are disconnected, the OB end is up because the counterweight is heavier than the 1/3 of the elevator it is attached to. My $.02
Either way, it would have been realy licky for it to tear and not jam at the hinge lines.
I am guessing that the IB ends are down because the cables are disconnected, the OB end is up because the counterweight is heavier than the 1/3 of the elevator it is attached to. My $.02
Either way, it would have been realy licky for it to tear and not jam at the hinge lines.
Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:50 am
It looks like only the tail section is there and I would say it is more likely this shot taken at a boneyard.
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Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:19 am
Nathan is very wrong!
Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:25 am
You can see the tail section is removed & sitting on a cradle assy. Probably more damage to the tail, & aircraft than just whats visible. Just my 2 cents.
Robbie
Robbie
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Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:47 am
Thee front half is at bottom left. Doesn't look like to much damage or a salvage yard to me 
Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:38 am
ahh ok jack. sorry. 
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Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:50 pm
Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:19 pm
Looks more like flak damage to me... 
SN
SN
Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:29 pm
Steve Nelson wrote:Looks more like flak damage to me...
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Either that or a really big baseball bat!
Well the reasoning behind my $.02 cents was that it looked like more of a T-33 fuselage then a F-80. Ok, ok, I know both are about the same but the colors, the coding, the serial all smacked T-33. And as far as I can remember no T-33's got shot down by migs. So thats why I opted to guess a boneyard.
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Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:41 pm
My friend Hap who was in the flight said it was a fast moving silver
thing with red stars and was shooting big orange flaming grapfruit at them
thing with red stars and was shooting big orange flaming grapfruit at them
Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:37 pm
Not an issue! notice the tabs and the right hand elevator are also down.
With the control cables disconnected the surfaces will follow mom nature and obey the laws of gravity.
How do you know the cables were disconnected?