Subdeacon Joe Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Don't know who those other guys were, but one was a Capt. C.E. Yeager...who just turned 97! Later broke the sound barrier for the first time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 LOL... I was just about to note that, 'Rider! At 1:46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 When I was at AFROTC summer camp, back in '64, the commandant of the camp, a LTC Vincent Gordon, who was the Ops officer of the host air defense squadron at the base, showed us film from his gun cameras in WWII. He was flying a P-51 on "Rhubarb" missions (low level strafing runs). He was attacking a Luftwaffe airfield with a bunch of parked FW-190's. He was going down between two rows of those, and the level of the camera in his low wings were below the level of the prop spinners on the (taildragger) Focke-Wulf's! He told us that one of his squadron mates even came back with a gopher in the air intake on the belly of the -51! Don't know how true that was, but if so, that was flying LOW! If they tried to put their gear down, they'd have crashed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozark Huckleberry Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 I caught the annotation re Chuck Yeager at 1:46. What really caught my eye was the attacking plane taking out the wires at 0:22. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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