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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1425 on: 07-11-2009, 14:11:54 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1426 on: 07-11-2009, 14:11:10 »
Destroyed French Bloch MB-152, France, 1940.


A niice photo of a slow flying crash landing that was well excuted for the most poart but the wing/plane clipped with the building at the last moment. Pilot got out, Germans found it and did some posing photo's.  That's atleast the most obvious, straightforward conclusion one can draw.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1427 on: 07-11-2009, 16:11:01 »
Seth, you really need to start providing info. :D

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1428 on: 07-11-2009, 16:11:42 »
Obvious maybe... but here is the true story: In a previous battle at that location a 88mm fired a hole into that wall leaving a hole just big enough for the Germans to fit the wing tip, the stone wall was lowered thanks to tanks. Thus, with perfect condition, it's allowed the Germans to experiment of the very first, battlefield Drivethrough Cafe (the experiment with a French Bloch MB-152 because they couldn't afford to risk damaging their own planes). The pilot is fine and ordering a Coffee and Bagel, while stopping for a chat with an officer.


Why are the landing gear down? Unless they fell out of the wings, but that is unlikely, more believeable the would get locked up underneath in the wings. And where is the propeller?

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1429 on: 07-11-2009, 16:11:46 »
...And where is the propeller?

"Flieger, where is your propeller?.."
"Was? Oooh! Now I understand why I crashed, herr Leutnant!"
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1430 on: 07-11-2009, 16:11:08 »
...And where is the propeller?

"Flieger, where is your propeller?.."
"Was? Oooh! Now I understand why I crashed, herr Leutnant!"
The rest of the engine housing was in good condition though. It is unlikely that the propeller itself would just be blown off... even through the crash landing, the blades would only be bent back, not taken clean off..

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1431 on: 07-11-2009, 16:11:51 »
Parts on the engine are bended, things are sticking out, they broke off  :P
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1432 on: 07-11-2009, 16:11:51 »
...And where is the propeller?

"Flieger, where is your propeller?.."
"Was? Oooh! Now I understand why I crashed, herr Leutnant!"
The rest of the engine housing was in good condition though. It is unlikely that the propeller itself would just be blown off... even through the crash landing, the blades would only be bent back, not taken clean off..
If it still had the propellor it wouldn't have crashed would it?

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1433 on: 07-11-2009, 16:11:13 »
...And where is the propeller?

"Flieger, where is your propeller?.."
"Was? Oooh! Now I understand why I crashed, herr Leutnant!"
The rest of the engine housing was in good condition though. It is unlikely that the propeller itself would just be blown off... even through the crash landing, the blades would only be bent back, not taken clean off..
If it still had the propellor it wouldn't have crashed would it?

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lol, there isn't any evidence of it, but it could of been shot in the fuel tank(s) and ran out of gas, machanical failure, same thing for oil as gas, good of taken many hits to the engine, pilot could have been hit by direct fire, could of lost control of one of the many control surfaces... there are a number of possiblities.


And even with the brutal landing of this Wellington.. the propellers remained!  ;D

Those are my pictures of the Day BTW, along with a bonus  ;)
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1434 on: 07-11-2009, 17:11:25 »
Kawasaki H6K under Fire, unkown date/location.



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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1435 on: 07-11-2009, 17:11:07 »

lol, there isn't any evidence of it, but it could of been shot in the fuel tank(s) and ran out of gas, machanical failure, same thing for oil as gas, good of taken many hits to the engine, pilot could have been hit by direct fire, could of lost control of one of the many control surfaces... there are a number of possiblities.


And even with the brutal landing of this B-24 Liberator.. the propellers remained!  ;D

Those are my pictures of the Day BTW, along with a bonus  ;)
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Its a british Welington mate, i noticed from this angel they kinda look the same, but the B-24 hase 4 engines.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1436 on: 07-11-2009, 18:11:34 »
Nuh uh... the other 2 engines just fell off.. lol, good attention to detail. I'm supprised I never noticed that.. with my background on aaviation i'm ashamed of myself.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1437 on: 07-11-2009, 18:11:30 »
Nuh uh... the other 2 engines just fell off.. lol, good attention to detail. I'm supprised I never noticed that.. with my background on aaviation i'm ashamed of myself.

In that case Note the gigantic windows in the fuselage  :P
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1438 on: 07-11-2009, 18:11:51 »
Those are windows? The 5 1/2 rectangular objects? I couldn't tell, I thought that was just some random addition to the paint, plane, marking, idk.. :P

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1439 on: 07-11-2009, 19:11:55 »
The pic is called crashed_wellington_700.jpg, so yea..