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yagotme

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8. Impossible. Improbable. Unbelievable.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 20, 2025, 12:50 PM

Mar 2025

But it happened. Amazingly. Read a book about a British Spitfire pilot who got shot down over France, was making a crash landing, and the 4-barrel 20mm AA gun was still shooting at him. He lined up, fired a quick burst at the gun, and then landed. His German captors drug him over to the gun (he was dazed from the landing), and the next thing he knows, they're slapping him on the back, saying "Gut shot, Englander, gut shot!" One of his cannon shells had gone down one of the barrels of the AA gun, and had split it open like a banana peel. An "impossible" shot.

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Delta plane crash report offers latest findings on what happened at Pearson (Toronto) last month [View all] applegrove Mar 2025 OP

If I had to guess, cloudbase Mar 2025 #1

Sounds logical. yagotme Mar 2025 #2

That is what the aviation expert on CNN, Soucy, said applegrove Mar 2025 #3

Air is a funny thing. yagotme Mar 2025 #4

I'm always amazed at how planes stay in the air. So many moving parts applegrove Mar 2025 #5

What's really fascinating, is to see some of the planes in combat, yagotme Mar 2025 #6

My god. That sounds impossible. applegrove Mar 2025 #7

Impossible. Improbable. Unbelievable. yagotme Mar 2025 #8

Unbelievable. You remind me of my Dad who was applegrove Mar 2025 #9

Yes, I read, and have read, a lot of military books. yagotme Mar 2025 #10

Mind and body. I like that. I keep my mind busy, i have to. applegrove Mar 2025 #11

Thank you. It's something I enjoy. yagotme Mar 2025 #12

Which is why it took 80 years for fascism to rear its ugly head again. The people applegrove Mar 2025 #13

Yup. nt yagotme Mar 2025 #14

There was a military airbase near my dad's home when he was a kid. They had one of every plane in applegrove Mar 2025 #20

When I was at admin school at Camp Pendleton, yagotme Mar 2025 #23

I live between two small aircraft bases so, when Dad was alive, applegrove Mar 2025 #24

The old biplanes are really amazing. yagotme Mar 2025 #25

Never been close to a biplane though we did go to an airshow and because dad had a handicapped applegrove Mar 2025 #26

Sure sounded like it. Love the Spit, too. nt yagotme Mar 2025 #27

Might be this B-17... Kid Berwyn Mar 2025 #18

Wow! applegrove Mar 2025 #19

Yes, story is at my link. nt yagotme Mar 2025 #22

I haven't seen a video of the landing, cloudbase Mar 2025 #15

I was making my observations on the vertical drop, not airspeed. yagotme Mar 2025 #16

Thanks. cloudbase Mar 2025 #17

Nope. Just a straight down descent. nt yagotme Mar 2025 #21