Aircraft

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Damn shame 'bout that TBM.  My Pop flew them in WW twice.  So did Prez. Bush Sr.

[Arcey]

Be nice if my youngest weren't a part of the eye candy. But she loves ta run half nekkid on the beach 'n she's a grown woman makin' decisions all ta 'erself. I suppose folks have ta donate ta our fightin' boys well bein'.

If that's my part – so be it.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Spokin' like a true Dad, Arcey.
According to the article, the pilot jumped off the plane while it was still moving after touchdown. He got burned some, but not life threatening. It's a shame about that old bird though, not many of them left. Probably got a hole in the fuel line running from the left wing tank, more than likely where it folds up. Good place for extreme chafing..............Buck

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Yer right 4 eyed, but I bet it doesn't (didn't) get folded up much these days.  Most hangars got more room than those old carrier decks and the underneath hold did!

[Texas Lawdog]

They always have several of the old carrier planes at the Airsho at Midland. They bring em down the flightline in front of the crowd and fold and unfold the wings.  The Wild Cat, Hell Cat, Bear Cat, Corsair,  Avenger, Helldiver, Dauntless, and the Hawker Sea Fury all have fold-up wings.

[Texas Lawdog]

Well, They got  "Tora  Tora   Tora" on AMC right now and "Midway "  comes on next.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

I've already seen 'em a bazillion times and I still watch 'em whenever they show!

Must be some kind of character flaw!

[Leo Tanner]

I've already seen 'em a bazillion times and I still watch 'em whenever they show!

Must be some kind of character flaw!

I have the same affliction.

[Texas Lawdog]

One of the best parts of the movie "Final Countdown" is watchin' those 2 Tomcats splash the 2 meatballs.   WHO  AH!

[Leo Tanner]

The Longest Day is one of em I can watch over and over.  You rarely hear about air support during the invasion other than airborn transports.  There is a brief scene in that one where you see an RAF four engine bomber wrecked on the beach and the pilot trying to radio in. 

[Texas Lawdog]

The c 47s carried the 82nd and 101st, but they also had some of them towing Waco gliders with troops and jeeps in them. The British also had gliders.

[Leo Tanner]

Yeah, but I'm perty sure that plane on the beach was a bomber.  Have ta look at it again, it's a very brief scene.  Now if I can only find the thing...

[Texas Lawdog]

Richard Burton's character is an RAF pilot that is wounded in the leg, but he is at a house and not the beach. No airplanes around him.

[Leo Tanner]

It ain't one of the main actors.  I'm still looking for my copy...

[Four-Eyed Buck]

The Brit's used some converted bombers to carry airborne. they went out the bottom..........Buck

[Texas Lawdog]

Probably Wellington's or Lancaster's.  They got some Lockeed Loadstars and called em Hudson's.

[Leo Tanner]

Now that could be.  The camera almost just pans over the scene.  Turns out I loaned my copy out and fergot about it.  Gonna get it back and look fer the plane  again this evenin.

[Delmonico]

I've seen film somewhere of Russian's climbing out on the wing and jumping off the back.

[Texas Lawdog]

Them Russians are a little strange anyway.

[Delmonico]

Them Russians are a little strange anyway.

Early 1930's learnin' was what it was, the plane had a door over the wing, you got in by going up a latter and on to the wing.  I can't find nuthin' on the net, but as I member it was a corrigated metal plane like a Ford or Foker, could have been either.