Amazing Warplane Facts

On 2014-07-29 17:48:57 +0000, Orval Fairbairn said:

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RustY © wrote:

On 27/07/2014 21:58, 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...aft_(1940–44)

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Regards,

Savageduck