"Aluminum Overcast" damaged by gear collapse

mlenoch

Dollars to donuts they pulled the gear up. Looked like a 'classical'
inadvertent retraction.

Forget which bird, but flaps and gear controls were side by side and
not too different shaped. To prevent inadvertent retraction the rule
was you came to a full stop after clearing R/W and then looked down
and retracted the flaps. This pulling flaps up by feel while moving
was a invitation to disaster.

Big John


On 11 May 2004 00:11:32 GMT, (MLenoch) wrote:

So on the '17 if the engines were in idle they might get away with
just prop repairs???? and sheet metal.

Long time ago in a land far away.

Big John

John, not so far away. This is still done today. Hopefully this will be the
case for this B-17.
VL