Aircraft pics

[Dog427435]

[b]I guess the passengers of flight 1549 got a sad dose of reality upon landing in the Hudson last week!

[427TJ]

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[b]I guess the passengers of flight 1549 got a sad dose of reality upon landing in the Hudson last week!




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That's not a raft, it's the escape slide that can double as a raft. There are slides on the rear doors too but some dip-s**t passenger opened a rear door and that began the rapid flooding of the cabin. Second, there are preservers under every seat and if the passengers had listened to the boarding safety announcement they would have known to grab their preservers as they left their seats. Captain Sully actually went back inside and grabbed several preservers from under the seats and tossed as many as he could to passengers on the wings. Those passengers have nothing whatsoever to complain about: they ignored (as they always do) the safety briefing and still lived through a water landing.

[mockingbird812]

"Importance of the Thunderbolt airplane"...

[L72COPO]

Fascinating film of air warfare training. Takes 48 minutes to watch but worth it. Got it from Cumby

http://www.hulu.com:80/watch/24197/f...ation-red-flag

Don

[COPO 70 RS/Z28]

Thunder bolt

My favorite of all time!!!!!!

[mockingbird812]

What a thumper of a workhorse it was. Plenty of firepower. Could dish it out and take it as well.


P.S. anybody notice my number of posts.... <font color="red">4346 </font>





Holley 780 for L78/89/72

[427TJ]

I showed my 9 year-old son the 1944 film "Thunderbolt" recently and he loved it. Lots of gun camera footage and train strafing with nice explosions. My son couldn't believe that most of the pilots were 22-24 years old with the "old man" of the fighter group being 25.

[COPO 70 RS/Z28]

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