Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 ......got wet down at Cocoa Beach. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/ww-ii-era-plane-makes-emergency-ocean-landing-at-air-show/3004865/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Flight 19 reenactment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Heck of a good landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Ditched it like a Pro! Hopefully they'll be able to get it airworthy again. There's not many of those in existence anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 I saw that this morning. Darn good piloting there. Not a normal day at the beach for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Hope they get it out of the water before the surf starts breaking it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 4 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: Hope they get it out of the water before the surf starts breaking it up. Surf in Florida only comes with a storm. Teeny waves is what we get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Saw one at Planes of Fame and was surprised at how BIG that thing is. Isn't that what GHW Bush was shot down in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 11 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Saw one at Planes of Fame and was surprised at how BIG that thing is. Isn't that what GHW Bush was shot down in? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Great landing! Hope they get it out of the water and hosed down to get the salt water off it. Of course, if we could desalinate Space Shuttle SRB's, and reuse them, this shouldn't be too difficult a task...just expensive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Yeah, they'll have to get something in there to lift it, and then put the landing gear down. Hopefully they can manually fold the wings first. Once the gear is down, roll it away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 16 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Saw one at Planes of Fame and was surprised at how BIG that thing is. Isn't that what GHW Bush was shot down in? Biggest single engine plane of WW2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 These planes are worth millions, and you can be sure the owner had it insured. The only time planes like this aren't restored again is when the crash destroys the airframe completely. It'll probably need a complete teardown though. And just to think, the Navy used to dump these planes into the ocean by the hundreds back when they were surplus to their needs. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Video is out of the TBM being "recovered." They just put cables on it and DRUG it over the beach. It'll be several years in restoration . . Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 3 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Biggest single engine plane of WW2 I don't know. The Russians had a humongous metal bi-wing single engine monster. I think it would be a toss up. I don't recall the name but Planes of Fame had one of those too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 29 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: I don't know. The Russians had a humongous metal bi-wing single engine monster. I think it would be a toss up. I don't recall the name but Planes of Fame had one of those too. Antonov AN2. Introduced in 1949 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Antonov AN2. Introduced in 1949 though. That's it. 1949? That ain't WWII! Sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Any link to the recovery video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 13 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: That's it. 1949? That ain't WWII! Sorry Tain't Korea either. Kinda Twix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 21 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Biggest single engine plane of WW2 17 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: I don't know. The Russians had a humongous metal bi-wing single engine monster. I think it would be a toss up. I don't recall the name but Planes of Fame had one of those too. Ah, but those Germans... and this was a WWI plane! Four engines, but only one prop. According to Google - The Linke-Hofmann R.II bomber was built in 1917, and remains the largest single propeller plane ever flown. That propeller is over 22 1/2 feet long. Most WWI fighters were less than that. The Sopwith Camel, for instance, was 18 feet 9 inches long. The R.II's prop was spun by four Mercedes 6 cylinder engines, and turned at only 545 rpm. It had a wingspan of 138 1/2 feet, nearly half a football field, a length of 67 feet, and weighed 18,000+ pounds empty - four times what the TBM weighed. Only 2 were built before the war ended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 said: Any link to the recovery video? Go to YouTube and search "Cocoa Beach TBM recovery" - lots of videos of the recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 15 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: That's it. 1949? That ain't WWII! Sorry There are some who would say that WW2 never really ended. Technically WW2 was just a continuation of WW1 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 3 hours ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: There are some who would say that WW2 never really ended. Technically WW2 was just a continuation of WW1 as well. Well I would agree that WWII was a continuation of the first one. But WW2 definitely ended. The players changed significantly, the defeated countries were rebuilt due to the lessons learned from WWI. It became a whole new ball game in 45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 3 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Well I would agree that WWII was a continuation of the first one. But WW2 definitely ended. The players changed significantly, the defeated countries were rebuilt due to the lessons learned from WWI. It became a whole new ball game in 45. And we have not truly fought, nonetheless won a "war" since 1945. We have a cease fire in Korea, still violated regularly by NK. W ran out on our allies in Vietnam. The whole middle East is one continuous (for well over five hundred years) screwed up mess.....and the list goes on. And none of this addresses the War on Poverty, War on Drugs, War on Crime, and any other so called WAR!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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