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Or a really good catapult.
Like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJNcCermTDw
Looks like the worlds largest and most expensive "pumpkin launcher".
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Yes, but are they Willys MBs or Ford GPWs? Let's debate that.
Their horizontal stabilizers appear to have rounded tips, like that of the F6F, not the squared off edges of the F4F. But you might have to take it up with the US Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation:
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Nope not good enough. Didn't reach lift velocity. Need more power.
I recall reading that when this was made (in 1985), it was one of the most expensive commercials ever filmed. Unfortunately, the car model bombed (in more ways than one). Just imagine a country allowing one of its flag vessels to sell cars!
Maybe just one of each and we leave it at that.
^ Within seconds after take off things started going seriously sideways.
My dad was in 2PPCLI and during training he was injured in the field, I can't remember exactly what happened, but I remember him saying they rushed him back to base at Shilo in a jeep, and the ride back was worse than the initial injury.
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Jack Fowler, the pilot, made a series of sharp dives over the sea hoping to dislodge the bomb, but without success. Finally, he alerted the Tadji control tower that he was going to land without lowering the plane's flaps, so as not to shake the bomb free on landing, eliminating the braking mechanism and guaranteeing a faster, more perilous descent. The Beaufort landed smoothly, but travelling at 80 knots it soon ran out of runway. Fowler slewed the plane to the left, taking the Beaufort onto an access road leading to a workshop where two jeeps were parked outside. When the aircraft's brakes failed, it careened over both jeeps and came to rest with the front fuselage hitting the workshop's overhanging roof. There was a momentary silence. The four-man crew waited for the bang; yet the bomb fell into one of the jeeps and somehow failed to explode. The crash killed a soldier in one of the jeeps, however, but the Beaufort crew walked away. The bomber itself was crushed, holed and disabled and later abandoned to the steamy PNG climate for almost 30 years.
Re: ww2 photos: wrecked aussie jeeps.
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/37300-wwii-jeep-fans-this-is-for-youphotos/
Amen to that! I contracted pneumonia on a Brigade exercise in Germany. I was transported to the Field Hospital unit in an open top Jeep. Every bump, jolt and pot hole made for a memorable ride .....
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An interesting study of deception in trying to make the Firefly Sherman look like a regular 76mm gunned tank. Lots of wartime pics of Shermans show them festooned with...........Sherman track sections................there must have been a goodly supply to harvest and use from burned out hulks. That said any and all manner of track will work. The above Firefly looks to have Churchhill track mounted.
I wonder if the mounted track amor was meant more to up-armor against the German 88 guns, or to counter-act Panzershrek rounds?
Just a couple of points on that question. First is while the German 88mm gun was a dual purpose piece it was not the only card in the deck as far as German AT guns and gun tanks went and the Germans where big on using towed AT guns and masters at reading the ground and gun placement. I see the track sections as added protection against Armour Piercing (AP) rounds (fired from either a AT gun or a tank). Defeating a hollow shape charge projectile such as a Panzerfaust/schrek round would just require a stand off detonation from the tanks armour as shown in this pic.
In Viet Nam Americans took to carrying a roll of chain link fencing to APCs for protection from RPG fire by setting up a "RPG" screen. Today vehicles will often be seen surrounded with "Bar-Slat-Cage Armour" (that cage like affair) around them to defeat High Explosive AT (HEAT) rounds by stand off detonation.
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