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EE Lightning coming down

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I remember this photo from 1962, of a pre-production Lightning crashing....amazing shot! (the Pilot Survived with several Broken Bones) when he smashed through a Greenhouse full of Tomatoes)

 

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Glad he made it out, it seemed like he would smash the ground without the para opening. Guess partial aperture and thats why the broken bones. Had to be terryfying

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Was at Alconbury iirc.....

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Somewhere, there's a WW2 shot of a Stuka crashing into a town, well behind a building that was near the camera, and the Stuka is nosing down seemingly right into the chimney of the much nearer building.

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...and it was crashing, nose vertically down and only about 500 feet high, far too low to pull out.

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looking at this picture I'm allways amazed he didn't died in big ball of fire/debris being that close but I think perspective is at play here

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