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B-17 Anchorage to Seattle-Tacoma Part 2 (Read 429 times)

Oct 9^th, 2004 at 7:58pm

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Nothing I could do, I had to shut down #3, so we were down one engine, and engines 1 and 2 were on their last leg...Things were not looking good for the old lady, or us.

Within minutes my copilot notified Seattle-Tacoma that things were dire and we would not make it to Seattle as our altitude was dropping fast. They notified us of a fire clearing near a small airstrip called Emma

Down to one engine, I began the shut off procedures for the last remaining engine. Gear was jammed, hydraulics were out, it was a mess. One of the locals, a guy named Fritz and another fella named Dave took these next shots, and as you can see, it wasn't pretty.

Coasting in #4 was idling down. Maybe we would do a soft landing with minimum damage, though I knew the undercarriage would need extensive work if that would even be possible

We were down, alive, and skidding to a stop, dust kicked up behind us.

Whew. Maybe she would be salvagable after all.

The end

---Stephen

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Reply #1 - Oct 9^th, 2004 at 8:11pm

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Great story Stephen, and the pics were splendid to booth

Any ideas of what the glideratio is on one of those fellas? The form drag is pretty heavy with the 3 props just hanging there, so I assume it's not that much ???

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Reply #2 - Oct 9^th, 2004 at 8:47pm

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Great story Stephen, and the pics were splendid to booth

Any ideas of what the glideratio is on one of those fellas? The form drag is pretty heavy with the 3 props just hanging there, so I assume it's not that much ???

She came down like a lead balloon initially, but levelled off pretty well at the end

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Reply #3 - Oct 9^th, 2004 at 9:12pm

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Nice sotry! Nice plane! Grin

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Reply #4 - Oct 10^th, 2004 at 3:14am

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Did you feather the props? Might have improved the glide ratio at least a bit.

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Reply #5 - Oct 10^th, 2004 at 9:44am

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Savas,

Hope you got the poor ball turret gunner out of there somehow Wink

best,

...................john

PS: Nice little story + photos.

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Reply #6 - Oct 10^th, 2004 at 10:40am

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Great story and series of pics.

Is this addon available as pay and then download? I cant find it on the shelfs here in the Uk yet Sad

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Reply #7 - Oct 10^th, 2004 at 11:05am