4 Turning- 1 Burning

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:59 pm

B-24J 15th AF Over The Adriatic Sea 1945
Note that the flak hit has taking off part of the #2 cowling :shock:

Oscar Duck · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:29 am

could be flak or she might just have thrown a jug....

hard to see how flak would hit the upper cowling like that..

ww2John · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:45 am

IIRC, flak shells burst omnidirectionally (in every direction - sometimes a sphere), not just "up". That doesn't mean it could not have puked part of the #2 engine.

Curtis Block · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:48 am

Not Burning, but not Turning.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:57 am

Wow!

Didn't know the CF boys played around with there bombers like that! Or was this actually a problem?

Would be a great airshow display to do something like that! I remember seeing Killer B at one of the Elmira located Wings of Eagles shows. She ended up coming by the show line with only one turning. It was a cool display!

gary1954 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:02 pm

Saw Tom Reilly at an airshow around Peachtree City a couple of years ago, he flew by us with the right engine out and feathered.

Curtis Block · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:12 pm

That dark patch running over the wing is oil.

gary1954 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:09 pm

hmmmm...that then, would definitely indicate a problem has arisen, thus causing pilot to shut down the afore mentioned engine.

Oscar Duck · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:18 pm

nice to believe everything is 'combat' related however more aircraft were lost through incidents/accidents/mechanical failure than enemy action. The big oil slick gives it away. No oil tank that far forward...

Curtis Block · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:34 pm

Unfortunatly the smoke that came just before the oil didn't show up that well in a photograph.

Paul Krumrei · **Joined:** Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:06 pm **Posts:** 1757

You can see panels missing on that engine in a close up view.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:22 am

The caption on the original says 'flak damage' :shock:

Paul Krumrei · **Joined:** Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:06 pm **Posts:** 1757

Wow, that is pretty clean flak...must have hit underneath and knocked them off?

Great picture!

Mgawa · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:00 am

Few B-24 were lost in that area and even some was crash landed and captured. So Jack Cook image is nice photo add in this way. Do you have larger image?

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:40 am

Yes oh dark one.
But, I can't lay my hands on it at present :shock:

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