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Re: Tokyo War Museum - Yushukan - Photo Gallery

Thu Sep 26, 2019 10:42 am

old iron wrote:Will someone please tell us that PoF has learned something this year about the risks of putting historic one-only aircraft into the air?


I was involved in the original N9M restoration and I'm glad that I got to see it fly for over 20 years. If you had seen it before the restoration I doubt you would have seen it as a viable restoration candidate for even a static display at the time. Nobody is sadder to realize the full impact of the crash, with the loss of both the pilot and plane, than POF.

Re: Tokyo War Museum - Yushukan - Photo Gallery

Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:25 am

What aircraft have the POF lost in flying accidents. These are the ones I remember, the RB-51 which was mechanical. The PT-22- unknown. The Hellcat - pilot judgement. The O-47 unknown but I think it was burned in a ground loop and the N9M , unknown.
Aircraft don’t crash because they are extremely rare. They crash for other reasons; mechanical failure, pilot training, pilot decision making, and also pilot’s skill and decision making during the execution of emergency procedures.
Recently I made an error in a flight simulator. First flight in a G200, had a V1 cut ( engine failure) on a foggy , 500’ visibility take off. I knew the right things to do and was doing them when somehow a wingtip on the dead engine side caught the runway surface. Embarrassing, but I got another go at it and learned from the training.

Re: Tokyo War Museum - Yushukan - Photo Gallery

Thu Sep 26, 2019 2:58 pm

Flying wing ?

Phil

Re: Tokyo War Museum - Yushukan - Photo Gallery

Thu Sep 26, 2019 4:47 pm

I suppose someone with deep enough (floor-dragging!) pockets could reverse-engineer a Raiden or three - are there any more components/wrecks existing to work from? Maybe the interest just isn't there like it is for the German types.

Re: Tokyo War Museum - Yushukan - Photo Gallery

Fri Sep 27, 2019 10:44 am

marine air wrote:What aircraft have the POF lost in flying accidents. These are the ones I remember, the RB-51 which was mechanical. The PT-22- unknown. The Hellcat - pilot judgement. The O-47 unknown but I think it was burned in a ground loop and the N9M , unknown.


RB-51 was not a POF aircraft
POF has never had a PT-22 or lost one that I am aware of
Hellcat, scud running by a retired airline pilot and the Reno Air Races safety officer
O-47 landed gear up and caught fire, it is (very) slowly being rebuilt
N9M unknown
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