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somebody just belly landed a P-80 in utah!
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Can't find anything on the news. Can you post a link?
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This is it with a photo
http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/arc...-belly-landing
OK, so it's a T-33. They didn't ident it on TV last night. The T-33 was a development of the P-80.
As an aside. My fathers collection of memorabilia includes a turbine blade from the Shooting Star that Richard Bong was killed in in August of 1945.
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"UPDATE: Marc Mortenson, Assistant to the City Manager of St. George, issued a clarifying statement this evening that the plane involved in this incident is a vintage 1957 Lockheed T 33 painted to look like an original Blue Angel jet."
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Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.
Various T-33s are based out of Wendover airport, Utah. Kay Eckhardt has his T-33s based at Wendover they are a Blue Angels variant
What you guys think. Should FAA (or whoever) ban vintage planes to fly?
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To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
Hell no. If it's airworthy, it's airworthy. Accidents happen to...anything.Originally Posted by Doktor
Hell I'd be more worried about the supposedly state-of-the-art Airbus A380
Aye, look at all the privately owned DC3's still running. And I'd just add if they can afford to own them they can afford to scrape them.
I hope they will repair this aircraft. These old birds are a precious part of our heritage. I am happy to see them flying and saddened when one is lost. But letting them fly is worth the risk, IMO - except perhaps when there is only one of a kind left - then it might be better to protect it with a static display.
"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children." -- Confucius
TH,
Accidents happen with very new or very old things. It's not out of the mind to expect these accidents to be more frequent as the time goes by. Maybe it is airworthy, but while the pilots accept the risk, people on the ground expect to be safe.
Whiskey,
You would expect rare samples to be in museums or exposed for general public elsewhere.
Maybe, just maybe it is easier and safer to build replicas?
No such thing as a good tax - Churchill
To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
People still fly in biplanes that were built 100 years ago. If the bird is airworthy fly the damned thing.
Yeah, I doubt very much a belly landing in one of those would be a walkaway.
Biplanes normally had fixed landing gear
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children." -- Confucius
The pilot of a biplane never had to turn on the "use your seatbelt" sign either.
True, but the Airbus pilot never has to pick the tail of his aircraft up by hand and turn it into the wind.
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