To: blam
That was Capt. Kim Campbell's Hog after her epic DFC run in Baghdad. Her callsign was "Killer Chick". No lie. And just for a little flourish afterward she dead-sticked it in.
The Story - WARNING: Language alert!
To: Billthedrill
Great story. I watched the vid at the link also. Good read and I didn’t mind at all the language. I’ve used worse.
To: Billthedrill
To: Billthedrill
And just for a little flourish afterward she dead-sticked it in. I don't recall her landing dead-stick, but I do remember her having to fly back to her base using the manual backup controls. The damage to her aircraft crippled all hydraulic power.
Hmm - does the F-35 have manual control systems as an extra layer of redundancy?
89 posted on
09/23/2014 2:04:04 PM PDT by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Billthedrill
No ‘dead stick,’ as that means no engines. Landed in Manual Reversion.
98 posted on
09/23/2014 2:17:22 PM PDT by
Hulka
To: Billthedrill
ausgezeichnet! Killer Chick indeed. God Bless her.
162 posted on
09/23/2014 8:05:50 PM PDT by
NonValueAdded
("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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