the P47 "the Unbreakable"no more

[Mysticpuma]

Originally Posted by FC99

He never saw that because pilots were not stupid enough to kill themselves for nothing. Luckily, USA planes are well documented and lot of these documents are available. When we were making G Limits model we used USA planes to calibrate the model.

If we are talking about P-51 this is snippet of what Air Technical Service Command has to say about it.


FC

He flew 67 Missions and was involved in multiple combat fights with the enemy, as-were his other friends (Barrie Davis, Jack Sherbourne, Frank Mertely). The only time they ever saw a wing snap was a pilot who was carrying bombs in a P-51 (then a new tactic) in a dive and as he pulled out, the undercarriage on the right-wing 'fell-out', which soon became fixed. This put the structural integrity of the wing into a failure and the wing tore off.

I am sure there were possible occasions that a p-51 would or could lose a wing, but this was the only time any pilot of the 325th recalled seeing it happen. It was never documented in the P-47's flown by the group other than from enemy action.

I however do trust your information, mine is from pilots who flew and knew how to fly them

Cheers, MP