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One morning the guy who has the hanger next to mine asked me help him take the cowling off his taildragger homebuilt. He had tried to taxi it the day before and ran into problems, like NO BRAKES and having to throw the turbine driven prop into reverse to stop it as well as goose the throttle to turn it.

I got on the Right side and he got on the Left and we lifted the cowling off. I saw nothing remarkable and said that; he responded similarly. Then I looked at the Left side.

HUGE DENT in the top of the turbine case!

HOLES through the side of the turbine case!

TURBINE BLADES rattling around in the bottom of the cowling!

Oh, and a cannon plug dangling loose from the engine, which probably explains why I had to reach down and turn off the fuel valves for him when he could not shut down the engine after coming within about 3 inches of hitting the Right wingtip on a hangar.

That airplane has not moved since. He said, "Well, I am glad that happened on the ground and not in the air."
 
MiTasol said:
If it wasn't for the wrinkled cowling I would have said definitely Photoshop. From my experience the oil only takes seconds to cover the nacelle.

Still think Photoshop tho
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Agree. That cylinder would act like a dum dum bullit and make a very large exit hole. Look how tight it is.
 
I read of P-47 unit based in the Marianas Islands in WWII. For target practice they would fly over to an island the Japanese still occupied and bomb and strafe. But one day they attacked that island with 45 P-47's and the Japanese managed to hit one of them, bending the upper cowling back. The P-47 was in no danger of crashing, but the leader told the pilot of the damaged airplane that he better head for Guam rather than go all the way back their base.

The pilot flew the damaged P-47 to Guam and landed with no problem. They parked him right next to a newly arrived C-54 that had carried in new troops in from the USA. The rookies gathered around the damaged P-47 and looked at it with wide eyes. One of them said to the pilot, "Kinda rough out there, huh?"

The P-47 pilot replied, "Rough? Rough? Let me tell you something! We took off with 45 P-47's this morning to hit an enemy target and I'm the only one that made it to Guam!"
 
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