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Stormin' Norman (norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium) 2018/08/17 06:52

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On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 23:58:25 -0700, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:14:05 -0700, Stormin' Norman
><norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium> wrote:
>
>>"On 19 August 1992, the entire rudder of a JH-7 suddenly fell off at
>>an altitude of 5000 meters, while carrying four live missiles. Against
>>orders to jettison the missiles and abandon the aircraft, the test
>>pilot decided to attempt an emergency landing. Using mainly
>>differential thrust of the two engines, the test pilot Huang Bingxin
>>made it back to the airport and attempted to make an emergency
>>landing, but a tire at the starboard side exploded on touch down,
>>causing the aircraft to veer off course. Using brakes as control, the
>>test pilot made two attempts before finally releasing the drogue
>>parachute to finally stop safely."
>
>By "entire rudder", does it mean the whole vertical fin, or just the
>moveable part?
>
>Boeing has safely landed a B-52H with virtually no vertical stab, and
>an E-6A (707) without the majority of its vertical stab.  And of
>course, the IDF/AF F-15 missing a wing.
>
>And then there are helicopters, which have absolutely no business even
>trying to fly...

There are a number of notable incidents where skilled pilots have
landed severely damaged aircraft, all of those aviators deserve
recognition.  Some of them deserve a psych eval too.


--

"Without having some kind of tangible reasons for doing so,

at all. It just feels like sort of a... banana republic kind of thing,"

-Senator Bob Corker on the revocation of John Brennan's security clearance

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