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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16633653" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>I know! It was a night time bombing training run. The crew got all set up, and were already flying very low to the water, which was a parameter of the mission: come in low, under enemy radar coverage, blend into the scatter of the ocean. Going 450 knots, they got a bit off course. In correcting the course and getting back on the planned bomb run, they got a bit low and "felt a sudden deceleration." Instruments show the aircraft instantly lost 50 knots on contact with the water. Imagine a 50mph full stop. Because that was about what that was. They had an external fuel tank; that got ripped right off. If any factor had been different, the angle they hit the water, if they hit a rising wave instead of a descending wave, if it had been a wingtip while they were in the steep bank to get back on the bombing run ... it would have been instant death. As it is, the fact that the entire airplane didn't just immediately shred itself on the impact and sudden loss of speed is a testament to Grumman engineering.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16633653, member: 67454"] I know! It was a night time bombing training run. The crew got all set up, and were already flying very low to the water, which was a parameter of the mission: come in low, under enemy radar coverage, blend into the scatter of the ocean. Going 450 knots, they got a bit off course. In correcting the course and getting back on the planned bomb run, they got a bit low and "felt a sudden deceleration." Instruments show the aircraft instantly lost 50 knots on contact with the water. Imagine a 50mph full stop. Because that was about what that was. They had an external fuel tank; that got ripped right off. If any factor had been different, the angle they hit the water, if they hit a rising wave instead of a descending wave, if it had been a wingtip while they were in the steep bank to get back on the bombing run ... it would have been instant death. As it is, the fact that the entire airplane didn't just immediately shred itself on the impact and sudden loss of speed is a testament to Grumman engineering. [/QUOTE]
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