On 2014-07-29 19:36:38 +0000, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> said:
> On 2014-07-29 17:48:57 +0000, Orval Fairbairn <orfairbairn@earthlink.net> said:
>
>> In article <d2RBv.372475$uU1.113657@fx05.am4>,
>> RustY © <No.Mail@All.Thanks> wrote:
>>
>>> On 27/07/2014 21:58, chuck@olypen.com wrote:
>>>> Here is an interesting bit of trivia for you.
>>>>
>>>> Amazing WWII Aircraft Facts
>>>>
>>>> 276,000 aircraft manufactured in the US.
>>>>
>>>> 14,000 lost in the continental U.S.
>>>>
>>> Who shot that lot down? Friendly-fire I assume.
>>
>> No -- many were lost due to "stupid pilot tricks," like swooping down
>> into a chicken yard to see how many birds you can blow away with
>> propwash, or flat-hatting over water in a B-24 and tipping sailboats
>> over with propwash.
>>
>> Of course, there were the usual number of too-close encounters with
>> thunderstorms, ice, fog, etc.
>
> Add to that basic & advanced flight school accidents. Include in that
> RAF & RNFAA pilots trained in the USA.
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/17/a7189617.shtml>
>
> So in those numbers you will find large numbers of AT-6s and a few
> initially problematic airframes such as the B-26, and US high scorer
> Richard Bong who died as a test pilot in the Lockheed P-80A, and many
> others.
>
> There were also a number of delivery accidents, particularly in Sierra
> Nevada winter storms and training accidents all over the West. Flying
> in the 1930's, 1940's & 1950's was not quite as safe as many believe it
> to have been.
> http://www.aircraftarchaeology.com
> http://www.ghosttownexplorers.org/aircraft/aircraft.htm
> http://www.av.qnet.com/~carcomm/a.htm
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(1940–44)
Then
>
there are stories such as this:
<http://pweb.jps.net/~prichins/airman.htm>
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Regards,
Savageduck
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