Don't know if you guys saw this
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sma ... -1.2652690
Vintage P-47 Crash
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Stikpusher
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Re: Vintage P-47 Crash
Yes, I saw the ditching on the news last nite. Today on the web I saw that they had already recovered the aircraft out of the water.
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scorpiomikey
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Re: Vintage P-47 Crash
Aircraft looks like it took almost no damage. Shame about the pilot, sounds like he got his foot caught on the canopy when he was trying to escape.
I get the feeling there wont be many pilots willing to fly this aircraft after this, superstitious bunch they are.
I get the feeling there wont be many pilots willing to fly this aircraft after this, superstitious bunch they are.
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BlackSheep214
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Re: Vintage P-47 Crash
I heard about it last night. The thing that's bugging me the most is the aircraft looks awfully familiar because it looks like the same one I saw 2 years ago at the Rochester Air Show. I got to talk to the pilot and he was very easy to talk to. I'll have to go back and look at the pics of the aircraft I took back then. I am hoping and praying it's not him. He was a stand up guy.
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“Send one plane it’s a sortie; send two planes it’s a flight; send four planes it’s a test of airpower. - Richard Kohn
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BlackSheep214
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Re: Vintage P-47 Crash
At least the 'Bolt can be salvaged. Such a great icon of WW2.
“Who controls the skies, controls the fate of this Earth”
Author unknown- 352nd Fighter Group, Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney
“Send one plane it’s a sortie; send two planes it’s a flight; send four planes it’s a test of airpower. - Richard Kohn
Author unknown- 352nd Fighter Group, Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney
“Send one plane it’s a sortie; send two planes it’s a flight; send four planes it’s a test of airpower. - Richard Kohn