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Hi Tom,
Yes, I am very interested, and would very much like to be on your list for those e-mail pictures of your boat. I'm sure many folks would be. "Sea Dog" sounds like a great boat. Solutions and improvements are always of great interest. Thanks for your kind offer to share the photos when you get time.
The B-47 mentioned crashing in Tampa Bay, was probably raised by the military because of the investigation involved. They wanted to examine those engines, and I know they did bring up the navigator's ejection seat, which, in a B-47 is designed to exit from the bottom of the aircraft.
Losing the main four engines during mid-takeoff over Tampa Bay, the pilot first maximum-banked the plane giving the navigator the greatest altitude and ejection angle available during his downward ejection.
Then the pilot leveled the wings, sent the backseat co-pilot out the top, and with residences straight ahead, stayed with the plane long enough before ejecting himself, to guide the craft away from the homes and "safely" into Tampa Bay, averting a real disaster. A hero, in my book. So were the boaters on the bay who picked up the crew from the water.
There may be several other sunken planes to sail out and dive to though. I was told at McDill, that during WW-II, there was an unofficial saying regarding aircraft; --- "One a day in Tampa Bay."
Thanks Tom, Happy sailing the Gulf, and Tampa Bay.
J. R.
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Clipper Marine Forum
CM 26 -- Greg -- 5/29/08 9:33a.m.
My comments FWIW... -- Leroy CM23TK Gulf 29 PH Helena MT -- 5/29/08 12:51p.m.
-- Greg Gerhard -- 5/31/08 2:58p.m.
-- JoeGusto/CM21#161 -- 5/31/08 7:10p.m.
Tom in Tampa; More McDill, and "Please & Thanks" on E-mail pics -- J. R. CM21 #150 -- 6/9/08 12:38a.m.
