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Re: F-86 Fun...
Posted by Steve T on Tue Nov 11, 2003 05:31:22 PM
In reply top Re: F-86 Fun... posted by Mike on Tue Nov 11, 2003 01:29:15 PM
All--
Holy COW. This may be the daftest, sorriest anecdote I've ever heard in a quarter century of airshow seasons. And one of the scariest. It doesn't even need mentioning how right Mike is about Sabres as low-level gliders...cf. the tragic loss of Jimmy Rossi last year. I earnestly hope that numbskull with the explosives is now safely stored in a room with striped daylight...Geez!
Steve (more than a bit flabbergasted)
: It's my understanding that the engine did flame out and Ed
: was able to get a relight !!! Thank Goodness...
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: : I'd say that Mr. Shipley was very lucky. If debris coul
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: : hit the nose gear door, then it could have been sucked i
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: : o the intake. Sabres don't do well at low altitude when
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: : hey loose an engine!
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: : Mike