maybe if you are parachuting down you could see one in the distance and hope to point your chute toward it? or if you still maybe had some control of your plane as it was going down you could do the same? but yeah, i would be curious to know how many airmen were actually rescued from these things. 

Both the Nazis and the British made a point of rescuing - or capturing - downed pilots bobbing around dinghies, after ending up in the Channel or the North Sea. Mainly they used boats for this, but seaplanes too.

Most airmen would not be interested in gunning for a rescue boat/buoy as a matter of principle. Shooting enemy pilots like ducks in the water wouldn’t be sporting for either side. There weren’t many psycho killer pilots in the RAF. There was one notable serial killer in the RAF, but The Blackout Ripper was never a…

Not what I expected on a car blog, but this is very cool nonetheless.  Thanks for this!

Topped with bouys sauce

‘Paper’s please!’

60 Minutes just did a story about WWII Maunsell Forts, one of which became a pirate radio station platform, and then a sovereign nation called The Principality of Sealand.

Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffle...

We need to put an airplane on this engine.

Yeah but this specific one is.

I think that is a “don’t sue us when you blow yourself up strapping this to something” disclaimer. 

Billings, MT is in Texas now?

Completely agreed. She died in what was unequivocally THE safest car in the world, because she didn’t put her seatbelt on. Sad.

The eBay listing stated that the engine was “not able to fly but perfect to dismantle and repurpose into collectible pieces of furniture or art.”

Spray some started fluid in there and light it up.  

And he was in the most wrecked section. You look at Di’s crash, and rear passenger compartment is relatively intact. That was a survivable event if she’d worn a seatbelt.

Ouch. But spot on. Funny how the one dude to survive that was the one dude with a seatbelt on...

Speed, booze, and lack of seatbelts.

Wait I’m sorry; did I read right this right that the reason they were in the one dude’s car is that the person who was supposed to give them a ride home also crashed?

Extremely tragic, but senior boys hanging out with freshman girls and getting drunk is already a horrible start to the night for everyone involved.