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What is this???????????

Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:29 pm

OK.......Back to warbirds.
Who can tell me what this is??
First correct answer gettings...well nothing.
Image

Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:34 pm

my best guess?? --- looks like the front half of a hellcat thats torn in half on a carrier landing and gone over the side???

Mark Pilkington

Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:21 pm

I was going to guess Hellcat as well.

Ach zo

Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:58 pm

A Lootenant discovering that pilots CAN'T walk on water? :lol:

Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:57 pm

Yes, those must all be true.

Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:45 am

That is...a really bad landing.

Hey, the saying goes "any landing you can walk away from" not "swim away from"!

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Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:57 am

I would have said it looked like the cover page from the Course book on

"Emergency Swimming Lessons - 101"


Digger

F6F

Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:08 pm

Yes-Ok,
It's a F6F of VF-37 that went over the side of the USS Sagamon off the Philippines in 1944. Yup, I'd be swimming my *ss of too!!!
I'm wondering though, what that tank is mounted on the rear of the bulkhead??? Can anyone answer that question???

Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:30 pm

I think that would be the tank for water injection. They started getting W.I. engines in 1943.
Robbie
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