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Post by simnettpratt on Sept 8, 2017 16:44:35 GMT -5
Someone posted this in a newspaper about the WWII RAF pilot Douglas Bader. He had lost his legs before the war in a crash while doing aerobatics, but he recovered, and was accepted as a pilot when the war broke out. He had 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged, all with no legs. Here's the post:  |
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Post by crapgame on Sept 8, 2017 16:51:09 GMT -5
Douglas Bader was able to take his plane to maximum potential due to not having legs, not having legs prevented him from blacking out during extreme G force manuveoures.
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Post by simnettpratt on Sept 8, 2017 17:02:07 GMT -5
Good point; I'd forgotten that.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Sept 8, 2017 17:03:16 GMT -5
Ha!
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Post by toshtego on Sept 8, 2017 17:50:49 GMT -5
So, did he have the stick converted to control the rudder along with the ailerons, kind of like the old Sky Coupe? Maybe prosthetic legs which could work the rudder pedals?
Interesting about g-force resistance.
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Post by simnettpratt on Sept 8, 2017 18:11:46 GMT -5
In pictures of him posing sitting on his Hurricane, he's using his prosthetic legs, so he may have been able to use them to work the rudder. That's a guess though, but I don't think they modified a Hurri just for him.
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Post by crapgame on Sept 8, 2017 23:05:07 GMT -5
He was able to use the rudder controls with the artificial legs
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