To: AngelesCrestHighway
2 posted on
05/11/2012 9:11:32 AM PDT by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Never heard of such a plane. I assume it’s American? It could fly again.
3 posted on
05/11/2012 9:14:11 AM PDT by
Clara Lou
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Goes to show there are still many treasures yet to be discovered that are in plain sight.
5 posted on
05/11/2012 9:14:50 AM PDT by
LukeL
(Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Looks like the pilot landed her as well as possible under the circummstances. Desert sand is one thing, big rocks are another.
Be neat if the pilot was still around to see her after 70 years. Not many of the WW2 folks still here.
7 posted on
05/11/2012 9:15:25 AM PDT by
X-spurt
(Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Just realized I made a pun. Should have said plane sight.
8 posted on
05/11/2012 9:15:36 AM PDT by
LukeL
(Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Someone must have stolen the fabric off the rudder and elevator to make a burka.
10 posted on
05/11/2012 9:17:54 AM PDT by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Wow, that really is in pretty good shape.
To: AngelesCrestHighway
I’ve never heard of KittyHawk. Isn’t it a P-40 Thunderbolt?
23 posted on
05/11/2012 9:28:58 AM PDT by
justice14
("stand up defend or lay down and die")
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Wow! A P40! Wonder what the story is on it?
25 posted on
05/11/2012 9:29:41 AM PDT by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: windcliff
28 posted on
05/11/2012 9:33:06 AM PDT by
stylecouncilor
(Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Plane is in incredible shape. Way worse examples and harder to remove have been restored..hope this one get's saved.
.Wonder if the pilot was rescued?
30 posted on
05/11/2012 9:38:51 AM PDT by
trailhkr1
(All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
32 posted on
05/11/2012 9:42:55 AM PDT by
cynwoody
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Its not quite the same as the opening sequence to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but its awfully close. I was thinking more "1970s TV movie", specifically the one with Doug McClure as the pilot of a crippled P-40 that is taxiing around the desert, being pursued by a German tank. It had one of those much-used titles like "Death Race".
35 posted on
05/11/2012 9:43:34 AM PDT by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
40 posted on
05/11/2012 9:48:55 AM PDT by
Fido969
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Interesting that the prop was feathered yet under a lot of power when he hit the ground. Loss of oil pressure?
62 posted on
05/11/2012 10:17:23 AM PDT by
Clay Moore
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
What a tragic and compelling bit of history. Fascinating that this plane survived nearly untouched for all these years. Hope they can locate the missing pilot's remains.
Thanks for posting.
87 posted on
05/11/2012 11:07:42 AM PDT by
Kolb
(Compone Accomoda Supera)
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