[rescue] Corsairs

[Stefan Skoglund]

Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> The problem was that having a 13' propeller the plane sat at a high angle while
> on the ground and made them difficult to see out of while on the ground and

you have that particular problem with most tail-wheel types
and it gets nastier in a high-hp military types.

look up a french wwii fighter (devoitine i think).
a fast bird but :
1. unsteady in flight and so a bad weapon platform (very hard to hit
something
   if your mount is jumping all over the place)
2. she-devil in the air and at the ground to - you had to fly it
   all the time between chocks off-chocks on !
   which resulted in a lot of taxying mishaps.

The Spitfire was a very forgiving a/c compared with this !