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B-17 'Mizpah' after 88mm flak rounds ripped its nose off over Budapest, July 14 1944. Pilot kept it flying 10 mins so the crew could bail out. (lemmy.world)
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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, this is one where we need a red circle for where the pilot would be.

Holy cow that's nuts.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Up high and just forward of the top ball turret.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess the bombardier and navigator were out of luck.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 months ago

Yea, article says they were killed.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'm still having a hard time seeing it. There doesn't appear to be anything forward of the ball turret...

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

you can see the glass of the pilots cockpit right behind a shred of steel.

The pilot is likely flying very blind, and only based on the plane taking the photo.

They likely had some structural steel that prevented them from dying instantly from the blast. or maybe it got shredded, and they kept it up through pure will, then died afterwards.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

I had to use quite a bit of imagination, but now I can guess where the pilot was. Thank you.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the diagram, I can at least see where the pilot would be now.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Wait. So the front fell off?

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I just don't want people thinking bombers aren't safe.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

They had to fly it out beyond the environment.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, it wasn’t built by Boeing.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

wut? Probably was. Boeing designed the B-17 and built more than half of them.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Ok, that’ll teach me to try and be amusing without doing research.

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where is this from?

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Some (japanese?) Cooking tutorial back in the day. I remember it popping up on reddit ~8years ago or so and becoming a meme.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Colorized by AI? Because the damaged area in the color version looks nothing like the mono version.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

My pappy said they used to call that a "front row seat".