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Plane Flies For Two Hours With [half] Wing Missing (with pic)
Western Daily Press [Ireland] ^
| 8/19/2005
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Posted on 08/19/2005 2:36:22 PM PDT by sionnsar
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To: sionnsar
So like ... inquiring minds want to know ... how far did this blind dude fly his handicapped plane ???
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posted on
08/19/2005 5:57:32 PM PDT
by
Babu
To: Chickensoup
been there done that... 8^)
102
posted on
08/19/2005 5:58:10 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: Tennessee_Bob
Thanks.
From the standpoint of J. Random Non-Mechanical Passenger -- me for example -- something looks not entirely right, and a bit unsettling.
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posted on
08/19/2005 6:02:54 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: Happygal; Irish_Thatcherite; Cillmantain; Colosis; aculeus; Maeve; slane; Youngblood; ...
Eireann go Brach,
Was that your plane? :-)
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posted on
08/19/2005 6:06:40 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Tennessee_Bob
>>It was only after he had landed, when he climbed out of the cockpit and looked backward, that the pilot realized what had happened: the wing had been completely torn off the plane. . .<<
Outstanding piloting skills. . .but I must say, as a former F-15E fighter pilot, this nonsense about only after landing could he see the wing missing is. . .well. . .nonsense.
Visibility is excellent and you can see most everything. . .even behind you between the tails.
To: chilepepper
That was the F-4. . .proof that with big enough engines you can make a brick fly.
To: Blue Scourge
Triple redundant flight control system, with manual reversion.
To: Paleo Conservative
What is that? It looks like a bologna sausage on a wing
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posted on
08/19/2005 6:17:47 PM PDT
by
virgil
To: Gunrunner2
Visibility is excellent and you can see most everything. . .even behind you between the tails. Well - we heard a different version of the story from...certain clients who were visiting our shop. The plane was involved in the Bekaa Valley Air War. As he was coming out of the valley, he found some previously unmapped power lines - and lost the wing. He flew home using all the rudder and trim he could, and steered with his engines. He was immediately aware of what had happened to the aircraft, and was told repeatedly to get out of the jet - but after landing it, said that he didn't want to get out because the IAF couldn't afford the loss.
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posted on
08/19/2005 6:18:01 PM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: Gunrunner2
Triple redundant flight control system, with manual reversion. And a real bitch to hand push off the line when it's fully loaded with fuel and munitions and an ECM weenie manages to fire off the ECM pod and drops flares all over the damned place because he forgot to check the K and see what status the aircraft was, and you're having to push because it's got jets on either side of it in the same status and no tug anywhere around.
Not that I ever had to do that, mind you. Know how deep a hole those flares will burn in a parking ramp??
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posted on
08/19/2005 6:20:54 PM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: sionnsar
Reminds me of a flight from Houston to LA I was on years ago. They kept circling downtown LA and giving out champagne, and a fire truck was there when we landed. Turns out five major flaps had fallen off the plane, landing in people's backyards, etc. We felt no difference in the landing!
To: glock rocks
Lucky Charms go good with Old Bushmills ?
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posted on
08/19/2005 10:54:44 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: muir_redwoods
Probably going to repair a Northwest Airlines plane.
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posted on
08/19/2005 11:42:32 PM PDT
by
AggieCPA
(Howdy, Ags!)
To: AggieCPA
"Probably going to repair a Northwest Airlines plane."Why? They almost never fly anyway.
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posted on
08/20/2005 3:59:35 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
It's Bushmill's fault. Oy! You're good!
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posted on
08/20/2005 4:02:17 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(IF YOU'RE NOT CATCHING FLAK, YOU'RE NOT OVER THE TARGET...)
To: Squantos
Aye, t'would appear to be a fact.
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posted on
08/20/2005 6:08:12 AM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Let's light this candle.)
To: Tennessee_Bob
Interesting. . .hadn't heard that.
Interesting, indeed.
To: Tennessee_Bob
LOL. . .
Say, ever hear of that munitions guy that fired off a round when trying to clear a jam. . .on the ramp at Bentwaters? Heard about that but never was able to verify as true or not.
To: muir_redwoods
And if they do . . .they are never on time.
To: My2Cents
"Probably wondered why he had to keep adjusting the trim."
I'm finding this hard to believe. When I used to fly I was looking at everything all the time. Maybe I was paranoid.
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