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Of course Mythbusters did already profile the story of a Russian flight attendant that rode down the tail of a Russian airliner that broke up in flight and was the only survivor.

Mythbusters is a great show, but alas sometimes they "bust" myths which are absolutely true fact and well documented as such.

The chap who fell from the Lancaster that Mike Henniger mentioned was I believe Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showth ... chute+burn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade

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systemofadown1162 not the old Twilight Zone TV show but one of the movies that was made in the 1990's. One of the movies had a segment where a trapped turret gunner draws a picture of a B-17 with its gear extended and this saves his life. At the end of the movie the B-17 crew walks around the plane and sees the aircraft standing on a cartoon landing gear. Pretty silly.

Actually not the Twilight Zone show or movie, but the pilot episode (entitled "The Mission") of the 1985 anthalogy series, "Amazing Stories." It was directed and produced by Steven Speilberg (who, not coincidentaly, produced and directed a segement of the 1983 feature "Twilight Zone: The Movie") The B-17 crew includes a number of now familiar faces, including Kevin Costner and Keifer Sutherland -- plus a stirring John Williams score. I remember it being really compelling television, right up to the moment those cartoon wheels appeared. So close and, yet so far...

those cartoon wheels were pretty lame, it totally destroyed an otherwise entertaining drama.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

I agree. I find it an entertaining show, but they often rush to judgement by "busting" a myth because THEY can't re-create it with their experiments.