Warbird Information Exchange

Here's a link to a video of that B-52 with out the tail, flying and landing. It starts about 3:30 min into the clip.
Jerry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGkKSk6f ... ed&search=

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

That is crazy stuff.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

my friend was a cold war era b-57 canberra bomber pilot in korea, in the late 50's. his canopy blew off at 30 thousand feet, & he had to endure a significant flight distance for an emergency landing to the nearest base.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

I am 100% sure that this happened to another Boeing in the 1990s up in Seattle...my memory is fading, but it was a 767 or E-3 or some such.

If that's the same Buff that lost its fin during a turbulence test in the early sixties, it's still in service at Barksdale.

Steve G

Back in 1985 a JAL 747 lost its vertical stab & rudder. It flew around for about 30 minutes before crashing. I believe there were 4 survivors.

Regards,
Mike

Here is a pic of that Buff that a friend of mine posted a few days ago.

On two occasions, Concordes lost a large part of the rudder - one (IIRC) Air France, one BA, both landed safely.

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

Unreal!

didn't this happen to a commercial bird a while back, forcing the a pilot instructor who happened to be aboard, to steer and land using engine power?

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

There was the Air Transat Airbus A310 C-GPAT , on March 6/05, lost most of its rudder in flight en-route from Cuba to Quebec City.



Brian....