Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Bailing Out

A training film:

4 comments:

  1. you at least kept the flying goggles, right?

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  2. Wondering if the choice of an F4U for the plane was deliberate? I thought I recalled the Corsair had a nasty habit of eliminating pilots who bailed out via tail plane impacts, but couldn’t find any supporting data. Anyone know/remember?

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  3. The Corsair probably was the most common USN prop fighter in the late `40s, when the film was made.

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  4. I would see why the Corsair would be dangerous in that regard: thanks to some kludges in its development phase, the cockpit was way aft and pretty close to the tail.

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