"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
06/16/2016 at 10:48 • Filed to: planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
06/16/2016 at 10:48 • Filed to: planelopnik | 2
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A Lockheed P-38 Lightning, knocked out of action by a Japanese air raid on Mindoro in the Philippines.
OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
> ttyymmnn
06/16/2016 at 11:10 |
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That's what Elon Musk would call a R.U.D. (rapid unexpected disassembely) or a R.U.P. (rapid unexpected parking)
BringBackTheCommodore
> ttyymmnn
06/16/2016 at 11:11 |
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Anyway, that photo shows how robust the airframe really is on the P-38. She took one hell of a beating but appears to still be mostly intact, minus the obvious damage in the photo.
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ttyymmnn
> BringBackTheCommodore
06/16/2016 at 11:14 |
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It also looks practically factory fresh. Strip the engines and guns and make beer cans out of the rest.
kanadanmajava1
> BringBackTheCommodore
06/16/2016 at 11:29 |
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I think that it got the damage by landing with the landing gear up. The propellers have some blades intact so they weren’t turning when it landed. Maybe you cannot manually crank those down in a P38 and the engines were disabled by the AA?
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BringBackTheCommodore
> kanadanmajava1
06/16/2016 at 12:38 |
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That was my initial suspicion, too; however, this is what happens to the prop tips when a plane lands gear-up. If anything, I’m suspecting it was damaged during a strafing run (an air raid, as it were).