Subject: B-17 landing gear calapse video
From: "M. H. Greaves"
Date: 5/11/04 1:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time

know how to properly fly an a/c of
this type these days, but a shame that they don't have anyof those little
bogies they had during WWII just for this purpose; They'd lift it up by
crane and place one or two under it, so they could move the a/c away for
repair.

More than likely a pair of bulldozers would shove the plane off the runway to
allow the rest of the group to land. Remember many were short of fuel and more
may be coming in with wounded aboard. The crashed plane might well end up as a
bucket of spare parts. The mechanics watching this landing were already
lusting after those engines ready to pull them and mount them in war wearies
that needed them. When a plane crashes think of the mechanics watching as a
flight of vultures circling overhead counting the spare parts.


Arthur Kramer
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