Posted on 12/30/2008 5:20:15 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
Wait for it.
How do you make a milk shake? (I know, you already herd that one...)
If it was a bi-plane it could have been either a bull or a cow.
When regular cow tipping just isn’t fun any more...
BANZAI!!!!
This is a highly inefficient slaughtering technique. A lot of fun for pilots though.
May have clipped a wing or dinged the prop. Such and event would impart much momentum to the aircraft but more than enough to tip over the cow.
I saw an episode of “Dog Fights” on History Channel were an SBD took on three Zeros. He used his superior maneuverability to shoot down two. He reckoned that the third one was probably out of ammo and going to ram him on the next pass, so he pulled up and left at the last second, the wing tip of the SBD grazing the Zero. The sturdy SBD didn’t suffer much damage, the Zero took off trailing smoke.
Was that the Cajun pilot?
Well! This certainly qualifies you as an expert.
I, with my years of flying experience and a minor in physics, will just have to accede to your superior imagination.
ML/NJ
Wow! That cow flipped over and over right pastyoureyes.
No, I think the Cajun was the F-6 Hellcat who made the first Zero kill with a Hellcat. (Jap never saw it coming.) He later got in dogfight with a Jap ace who went vertical. Cajun followed him. If he had been in a similar looking F-4 Wildcat we would have stalled before the Zero and the Jap would have picked him off on his way down. As it was, as the Jap hit the top of his climb and turned over, expected to see helpless F-4. Instead the still climbing F-6 killed him when he began to pitch over.
The F-6 was more than a match for the Zero. The SBD was a dive bomber that couldn’t even do 300 kts. The SBD was a lot more rugged than the Zero and the pilot skillfully employed his diving vanes to juke off the Zeros. They should have been able to easily kill him, but they engaged him like a fighter instead of a bomber. They failed to exploit the advantages the Zero had over the SBD. They should zoomed out of range have made high passes on his two-O’Clock, instead they got into turning fight with a slower but far more maneuverable plane. In a ramming contest the SBD wins every time.
The day MAD COW DISEASE was born?
Verrry punny. Very punny.
According to the accident report, they were both pilots, there was no passenger.
The accident report also indicates that the cow was uninjured, and the plane sustained substantial damage, so really it should be “cow takes out plane”, not “plane takes out cow”.
So, it was either the cow’s fault, or George Bush drove her to do it! Drover, get it?
Nothing wrong with tipping a cow, if the service is good.
2. Just because such an accident occurred, does not mean that the video is authentic. ("Fake but accurate"?)
The video just doesn't look right to me. I think a stationary biplane was superimposed on a background, two non-pilots got in and jiggled around (without their goggles) and somebody gave the wing spar a shove when they yelled, "NOW!"
Also: what are the chances of having a video camera on board and running when you just happen to hit a cow?
Thanks for the ping!
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