[A.A. Cunningham]

All of the Chicken Littles' around here would have loaded their drawers if they had seen this.

[valkyry1]

I would not call that chicken little. Also he still had a little bit of vertical stab left, and drag from the horizontal stabs would contribute to longitudinal stability, and the slab sides of the fuselage also contribute to longitudinal stability.

And not only that, they were expecting it because they had the same occurrence on other B-52’s, so the pilots were ready with the throttles I am sure.