Unconscious pilot lands Spitfire while hanging from radio mast

[MiTasol]

by pure luck.

He somehow set the CG right for what followed

ONE IN A MILLION — Vintage Wings of Canada

Suddenly however a plane came down circling around with its engine heavy smoking. We noticed at once when it came out of the damp that it was a British fighter. The lower it came the more scared we got because we didn’t know where it should come down, because of its circling around. ..

www.vintagewings.ca

 

[fubar57]

Great story, good thing he wasn't flying a P-39. And now I mention this ".....de Wilde ammunition was a type that flashed on impact assisting the pilot's aim...." first I've heard of it. Off to the Googler.......................

 

[pbehn]

Great story, good thing he wasn't flying a P-39. And now I mention this ".....de Wilde ammunition was a type that flashed on impact assisting the pilot's aim...." first I've heard of it. Off to the Googler.......................

I have read similar, but different wording.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Great story, good thing he wasn't flying a P-39.

Oh if he was, he would have shot down 3 FW190s, had a 600 mile combat radius, cruised at 30,000' and had a local ground hog pull him from the wreck!

 

[fubar57]

Oh if he was, he would have shot down 3 FW190s....

.....while hanging from his chute

 

[GrauGeist]

Oh if he was, he would have shot down 3 FW190s, had a 600 mile combat radius, cruised at 30,000' and had a local ground hog pull him from the wreck!

And nuked a Japanese city along the way!

 

[fubar57]

And nuked a Japanese city along the way!

 

[GrauGeist]

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Ahh yes, the intended Kokura bomber (indicated by the "K")

 

[Gnomey]

Great story!

 

[pararaftanr2]

by pure luck.

He somehow set the CG right for what followed

ONE IN A MILLION — Vintage Wings of Canada

Suddenly however a plane came down circling around with its engine heavy smoking. We noticed at once when it came out of the damp that it was a British fighter. The lower it came the more scared we got because we didn’t know where it should come down, because of its circling around. ..

www.vintagewings.ca

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." Mark Twain

 

[vikingBerserker]

Well, we were warned about what would happen if you moved the armored plate and changed the CG.

I wonder if the groundhog was piloting it............