Ran across an interesting story tonight, the website looks promising too...
http://luckyaviation.blogspot.com/2009/ ... omber.html
The Cornfield Bomber
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mekender
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The Cornfield Bomber
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Darrell
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308Mike
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Re: The Cornfield Bomber
No kidding! Can you imagine standing on the wing, looking into the cockpit at all those dials, switches and knobs and suddenly feel the plane move a little while you're on it? At least he didn't have to worry about being ejected if he got into the cockpit!Darrell wrote:Wow, that's a great story. Thanks for sharing!
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I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Scott Free
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Actually, Mike, it would be a little scarier than that. With the aircraft on its belly, an average guy should be able to lean into the cockpit from the ground. However, the scary part would be that you would only be about 5 feet from the engine air intakes -- with the engine running! If the plane lurched forward, you could find yourself standing on the ground and a lot closer'n 5 feet to the intake!!
This little event was already legendary amongst Sixers when I was workin' on 'em in the late Seventies. (Actually, my squadron thought that we got the aircraft assigned to us but it turned out to be #767, not 787...) I'm not sure but I think I saw this plane on display around 1977 at Lowry AFB (along with a B-52). I presume since Lowry is no more that it may have wound up at the AF Museum. Hope so.
This little event was already legendary amongst Sixers when I was workin' on 'em in the late Seventies. (Actually, my squadron thought that we got the aircraft assigned to us but it turned out to be #767, not 787...) I'm not sure but I think I saw this plane on display around 1977 at Lowry AFB (along with a B-52). I presume since Lowry is no more that it may have wound up at the AF Museum. Hope so.
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Windy Wilson
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-- AND attempt to take off afterward! Thanks for sharing.Ex 71st FIS pilots are ragged unmercifully about the "Emergency" so dire that the aircraft was forced to land itself.
Wasn't there a case of a deck crewman getting sucked into a carrier-based aircraft about 10 years ago? IIRC it was an A-6E. The man lived to tell the tale and was not scalped.
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Scott Free
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Yeah, an A-6 let one get away. This happened (I think) in the mid-90s, but for some reason, it got tons of airtime last year on all of the "Wildest Video" shows. He said after he got sucked in, a strap on his uniform got hung up on (what was apparently) a pitot tube of some sort in the intake and he stopped about a foot or so away from the rotating turbine assembly until it was shut down.Wasn't there a case of a deck crewman getting sucked into a carrier-based aircraft about 10 years ago? IIRC it was an A-6E. The man lived to tell the tale and was not scalped.
A grisly story I heard similar to this was that an A-7 ate a 250 lb crewman that crossed too close to the intake at throttle up. They only got about 20 lbs from the back end of the exhaust. Needless to say, there was a catastrophic engine failure. When the A-7 came back up on deck after repairs, it had a shark's mouth painted on it with the name "Maneater" plastered on it...
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308Mike
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AWESOME!!! I LOVE IT!!Scott Free wrote:A grisly story I heard similar to this was that an A-7 ate a 250 lb crewman that crossed too close to the intake at throttle up. They only got about 20 lbs from the back end of the exhaust. Needless to say, there was a catastrophic engine failure. When the A-7 came back up on deck after repairs, it had a shark's mouth painted on it with the name "Maneater" plastered on it...
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Rich
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The 23rd TFW had A-7D's for a short time and they wore the teeth. The 23rd came out of the the WWII Flying Tigers in China. I think they are an A-10 outfit now.
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Catbird
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I ran across this video on Youtube the other day.
How many pilots can say that they've flown a plane after bailing out of it?
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How many pilots can say that they've flown a plane after bailing out of it?
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Darrell
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Might this be a sign that the pilot did not do everything possible to recover, or might the missing canopy have changed the aircraft's aerodynamics in some way, allowing it to recover on its own?
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