***The OFFICIAL aviation pics thread***

[likeitfast55]

Flying along, flying along ..... Fl410 ---- bam. Loud as a shotgun going off right next to you. Outer pane. Mech said it was a faulty heater. (heated mesh between layers of glass)

[beefed88]

Flying along, flying along ..... Fl410 ---- bam. Loud as a shotgun going off right next to you. Outer pane. Mech said it was a faulty heater. (heated mesh between layers of glass)

Dang! Were you flying?

[likeitfast55]

This was a friend of mine at Eagle. CRJ-700. Around 2005.

[46Tbird]

And since it's a pics thread...

[32vfromhell]

I had a 5th grade (1981) math teacher who flew a P-47D during D-Day. While strafing a rail yard he assumed he hit a munitions car. The resulting explosion bowed the wings up, punched shrapnel holes in the floor of the cockpit and damaged the engine covering the canopy with oil. He bailed out over the English Channel after the engine died and was picked up by a British destroyer. He said if he had been in a P-51 he would have not been alive to tell the story.

Spitfire pilots used to joke that p47s were so big that their american allies could just dodge bullets by diving back and forth in the cockpit.

[inline 6]

Spitfire pilots used to joke that p47s were so big that their american allies could just dodge bullets by diving back and forth in the cockpit.

I have sat in one recently, I was surprised how cramped it was. The plane may be large but the cockpit is surely not.

[F8LSVT]

Flying along, flying along ..... Fl410 ---- bam. Loud as a shotgun going off right next to you. Outer pane. Mech said it was a faulty heater. (heated mesh between layers of glass)

Wow talk about pants shitting fear.

[46Tbird]

[46Tbird]

[46Tbird]

I had a 5th grade (1981) math teacher who flew a P-47D during D-Day. While strafing a rail yard he assumed he hit a munitions car. The resulting explosion bowed the wings up, punched shrapnel holes in the floor of the cockpit and damaged the engine covering the canopy with oil. He bailed out over the English Channel after the engine died and was picked up by a British destroyer. He said if he had been in a P-51 he would have not been alive to tell the story.

"A P-47 flown by Lt. Richard Sulzbach of the 364th Fighter Squadron, 350th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force on April 1,1945. Lt. Sulzbach had a little run-in with some trees while on a strafing run over Italy. He was able to fly the plane 120 miles back to base and land safely. It's a real testament to how tough the P-47 was."





"A P-47 of the 64th Fighter Squadron, while on a mission to Milan, struck the ground during a low level strafing run. Despite the bent props and crushed chin, the pilot nursed the Jug 150 miles home to Grosseto. Photo via Hebb Russell"

[46Tbird]

[RWhite]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dejuGeDpEU

[helosailor]

[Kart21]

Are those A7s of late F8s? Helosailor?

[cobrajet69]

Are those A7s of late F8s? Helosailor?

Pretty sure F8



David