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Jack Cook
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It's smok'in so Brad must have checked the oil! :shock:
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Picture #1 - Wow! I don't believe he landed.

Picture #4 - That had to hurt about 1.5 seconds after that picture was taken!
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Jack Cook wrote:
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It's smok'in so Brad must have checked the oil! :shock:


I'm thinkin Brad should not have spent so much time checking the oil and paid a little more attention to the brakes.

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When you covered in that black gooey stuff you then to lose your focus :shock:

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Picture #1 - Wow! I don't believe he landed.

I don't know. It looks like that happened during the landing. Probably hit something on the deck.
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There's no FOD on our freaking deck :!: :wink:

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i've seen that triple hoola hoop prop wash on a number of carrier shots, but never ground bound birds. is it due to the physical characteristics of a carrier coupled with the at sea weather conditions???

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i've seen that triple hoola hoop prop wash on a number of carrier shots, but never ground bound birds. is it due to the physical characteristics of a carrier coupled with the at sea weather conditions???

Look harder. ;) With high power and in humid conditions, you'll see it on land bases. But you are right that it's probably more common on carriers, 'cost they're always close to water!

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I still think #1 is a deck/landing accident. The barrier is obviously on the deck in front of the F4U.
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The only thing in front of that F4U is Davey Jones locker :shock:

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Yep, the vapour spirals off the prop tips happens on land too. Somewhere I've got a shot of the Indiana museum's PV-2 "Hot Stuff" taking off in rather grotty weather with those "Slinky contrails" much in evidence. Have seen Hercs doing this as well. Very dramatic.

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OK guys I'll come clean.
This wasn't a crash, accident, incident or anything else.
This was a test of JATO or RATO using a F4U-1A. The smoke fizzling out under the wings is the rocket petering out. :lol:

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