Lest ye all think it’s safe to fly warbirds out there without fear of flak and marauding enemy fighters, don’t get TOO complacent…or those TURKEY BUZZARDS will jump right up and bite you like they did the CAF’s Corsair N9964Z at the Airsho in 2000! I offer the evidence of such a strike…it did a right bit of damage! However, other than the plane developing a slight drift to the left due to increased drag…Aubrey Hair (pilot) said it flew fine.
Mark
By: Rob Mears - 18th September 2004 at 06:09
That would have been a hoot if it had impaled itself on the pitot! 😀
By: RobAnt - 17th September 2004 at 18:18
shure
I bet it got the needle though!
By: Stieglitz - 17th September 2004 at 11:39
This proves again that a corsait is a stong plane (as many other WWII planes). But that bird shure proved to be a expensive one! 😮
J.V.
By: trumper - 17th September 2004 at 09:35
Lest ye all think it’s safe to fly warbirds out there without fear of flak and marauding enemy fighters, don’t get TOO complacent…or those TURKEY BUZZARDS will jump right up and bite you like they did the CAF’s Corsair N9964Z at the Airsho in 2000! I offer the evidence of such a strike…it did a right bit of damage! However, other than the plane developing a slight drift to the left due to increased drag…Aubrey Hair (pilot) said it flew fine.
Mark
How was the Turkey,did that drift to the left as well afterwards LOL 😀
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September 16, 2004 at 8:19 pm