Which fighters did pilots feel safest in for crash landing?

FLYBOYJ · May 31, 2005

Actually that nose probably gave great visibility for the pilot during taxi!

cheddar cheese · May 31, 2005

I think youre right! Ive never thought of that before but its a good point! 8)

the lancaster kicks ass · May 31, 2005

and you think the lanc's nose looks ugly!!

cheddar cheese · May 31, 2005

It is. The P.108's is a little better, but not much!

FLYBOYJ · May 31, 2005

cheddar cheese said:
I think youre right! Ive never thought of that before but its a good point! 8)

Thanks CC - Think about the Concord's nose! I could tell you through experience the biggest pain when taxi-ing a tail dragger is looking over the nose. Could you Imagine a huge 4 engine bomber tail dragger with a long nose? I think that was done on the P.108 just for that purpose. 8)

Chocks away! · May 31, 2005

The Piaggio is quite a unique looking plane isn't it? As are all Italian ones in fact ...

DerAdlerIstGelandet · May 31, 2005

Chocks away! said:
cheddar cheese said:

A normal landing in a 109 was hard enough!

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Actually, during 44-45 ,pilots crashlanded 109s all the time, and I think most times they got out ok. So maybe it WAS an ok aircraft to crashland after all. Remember that the difficult landing was mostly due to the landing gear, which makes no difference in a wheels up landing. On the other hand, the fw 190 must have been a handfull in such situations! High stall speed.

I am sure the crash landed them quite a bit from 1939-1944 too

cheddar cheese · May 31, 2005

Chocks away! said:
The Piaggio is quite a unique looking plane isn't it? As are all Italian ones in fact ...

Yep. I really like the Italian planes

DerAdlerIstGelandet · May 31, 2005

Most unique eneogh in the ugly way!

mosquitoman · May 31, 2005

Sorry but that Piaggio monstrosity is about as beautiful as the Fairey Gannet

DerAdlerIstGelandet · May 31, 2005

They did have some nice aircraft but most of them did not look very nice let alone seem very stable or sturdy.

the lancaster kicks ass · Jun 1, 2005

god the gannet's ugly!!

mosquitoman · Jun 1, 2005

At least the Gannet has character

cheddar cheese · Jun 1, 2005

Ugly character

lanc are you ok? The Gannet is British...

the lancaster kicks ass · Jun 1, 2005

i know but it really does look like it doesn't wanna fly, it's huge!!

FLYBOYJ · Jun 1, 2005

It reminds me of that fat chick you would see wearing a tube top with all her fat hanging out!

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Jun 1, 2005

Bad mental image. Damn now I wont sleep tonight.

evangilder · Jun 1, 2005

Dude, didn't need THAT visual! BLECK!

FLYBOYJ · Jun 1, 2005

Like This....

evangilder · Jun 2, 2005

EW! Nor that visual!

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