Went flying with p47Tbolt today.
He was flying his big Patty Wagstaff, testing the new smoke system. I was snapping a few shots while he was flying. Got bored, stopped shooting.
Everything was going great until, for some reason, the engine shut off. First time it's ever let him down like that.
Roy calls out "Dead Stick!" and I swing the camera towards the plane and start shooting.
Pictures tell the story...
He was doing well, but if he had continued on his current path (into the headwind) he'd have likely hit one of the several parked vehicles. I started to tell him "Stay to your right" but figured that it would be best to
not say anything and let him fly it. When he tried to bring it around and touch down on the runway is when he went from a headwind to a crosswind. At that point the plane stalled and fell from the sky.
Overall it was a clean break of the fuse. Aside from the damaged fuse and the bent wing tube, everything survived.
It'll be in the air again by the end of summer.
