Great pics Concorde! 8) Not much left of that 190A-7 that hit the trees, and how did that Hurricane make it back?! Especially with that Bull Terrier on the tail, must have upset the aerodynamics a bit Like the Komet too.
I seem to remember reading somewhere, that the undercarriage on a Ju87 had some sort of small explosive charge that could enable the fixed undercarriage to be jettisoned....
I took these pictures in 1971 of a P-47 that did a dead stick belly landing at an airshow in Port Hueneme, California. Didn't see it crash, they were loading it on a flatbed trailer. I'm not a pilot but I would think that thing would fly like a brick without power. The plane is in really good shape considering. Anybody know anything about this plane and if it survives?
As long as this thread has been reawoken, didn't the Whirlwind have a good reputation for keeping the pilot safe in crash landings? Something to do with the engines out on the wings and a decent structure around the pilot?