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Aircrat crash site website...

I have heard it referred to as "aviation archeology". I'd rather research and hike out to a crash site than follow GPS coordinates to a geo-cache.
 
The incident was a while ago and he has since recovered, but he's still suffering some after-effects of those injuries. The aircraft had a hydraulic failure and both he and the pilot ejected during a roll. His arm was nearly torn apart by the vertical stabilizer and ended up dangling from a cliff, hanging by his parachute. The pilot's parachute unfortunately never deployed.
 
I've flown (and been flown) in the QF-86H pictured. One of the dates in my log is 12/04/1973. The H model was really fun to fly, but the remote controller could rally throw you around. When we wrote the -1 suppliment, we included a restriction that he couldn't turn more than 720 degrees at over 4 G's. It's a different world when the guy p[ulling the G's can't feel them.
 
I thought it was pretty weird and a bit macabre, until I realized: I've spent a some time and coin doing the same thing. . .I just have a preference for the crash sites that are underwater.

Hellcat in Naragansett. . .Thunderbolt off Lanikai. . .Corsair off Diamond Head. . .B-24 (x2) off Haleiwa

And if you think about it, most wreck diving is the same thing, with ships instead of aircraft.
 
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