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PDelta41 Hatches aren't open... Must've had a mechanical failure, helicopter followed it in. Nice job ditching, looks like.
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PDelta41 It is not landing, as stated before, he's doing a flyby for an air show.
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PDelta41 This thing doesn't really fly, right? It just trundles from place to place on the ground?
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PDelta41 Yup, that's an F4U. Later verson, looks like, with four 20mm cannon instead of the six .50cal machine guns.
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PDelta41 I see a droptank, an AIM-120 AMRAAM, and what looks like an AN/ALQ ECM, and is that an AIM-9?
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PDelta41 I think he just massacred that cloud. Too far forward to be compression, looks like.
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PDelta41 Not that one, looks easily repairable, though. Snow helped that, I'm sure.
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PDelta41 Reminds me of hearing about the WWII planes that would return "sans meaningful chunks"
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PDelta41 Sikorsky was never accused of designing attractive aircraft. "Helocopters don't really fly. They're just so damn ugly that the earth repels them."
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PDelta41 Used to be, some pilots would fly so low that they'd make the cars scatter, so the road would be safe for low-flying aircraft.
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PDelta41 This is probably Afghanistan. It's pretty mountainous there.
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PDelta41 A good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is one where the aircraft can be reused. (If it can get somewhere to take off, and they can repair whatever forced the landing,...
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