Subject: B-17 landing gear calapse video
From: "M. H. Greaves"
Date: 5/11/04 10:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time

I'm not doubting you Art, its just that I have seen the odd pic of bombers
where the u/c had collapsed or hadn't come down (or whatever!), they'd
lifted it by crane later, and lowered it onto a pair of small bogies to take
it away, course as you say, she ma

Yeah but you got an entire group coming back from a mission and this one ship
has the only runway closed. Wait for a slow lumbering crane to come out while
planes in the air run out of fuel? I don't think so. The bulldozers will have
that wreck out in the dirt at the speed of light.




Arthur Kramer
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