TIM RICHARDSON -> ROSS SAUER wrote:

 TR>> Propeller fighters for Air Craft Carrier WWII operations (Corsairs,
 TR>> Mustangs, etc etc


 RS>> Mustangs were used on carriers?


 TR> I don't know. But there was a four-blade-prop fighter plane that, just
 TR> as it
 TR> lifted off the pilot was required to throw the stick hard over in the
 TR> opposite
 TR> direction of the propeller spin, or the engine's torque would turn the
 TR> plane
 TR> upside down and crash!

Otto seems very impressed by his small town seeing an older plane.
Imagine how he'd react to a fisherman finding this

Decision expected soon on salvage at Otay lake SAN DIEGO -- Navy pilot E.D.
Frazar had to think fast. The engine of his plane was failing during his
practice bombing mission over Lower Otay Reservoir in the waning months of
World War II. The SB2C-4 Helldiver was on its way to becoming the latest
victim of the aircraft's spotty reliability record. Pilots called it
"the beast." At 3:30 p.m. May 28, 1945, Frazar completed a
wheels-up, flaps-down forced landing into the lake, much like how Chesley
"Sully" Sullenberger landed a US Airways plane on the Hudson
River in January after it struck a flock of geese. Frazar and gunner Joseph
M. Metz swam ashore at what now is Bushlow Cove. They were rescued, but
their Helldiver sank 85 feet to the bottom of the lake. It remained in
obscurity until now, with the Navy's aviation museum saying.

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