"Jesse Shaffer" (7esse)
12/25/2014 at 16:42 • Filed to: planolopnik
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"Jesse Shaffer" (7esse)
12/25/2014 at 16:42 • Filed to: planolopnik | 3
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The U.S. Air Force historically doesn't tend to favor delta-winged airplanes. The delta shape is said to be beneficial at high-speed maneuvering or stability, but they're supposedly a bit tricky to handle down low, at low air speed... you know, sort of like when you're landing... sort of the most difficult thing a pilot must regularly do with their aircraft, to begin with.
Check out this story about an F106 Delta Dart that landed by itself. Major Gary Foust (ret.) got the himself in to a flat spin, one of the most difficult situations to recover from this side of compressibility, and was forced to bail out when the jet refused to fly.
Impossibly, the aircraft who's pilot abandoned it at 8,000 feet above the earth's surface was recovered, repaired, and returned to service. Bonkers.
DoYouEvenShift
> Jesse Shaffer
12/25/2014 at 17:19 |
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Thats an incredible story!
McMike
> Jesse Shaffer
12/30/2014 at 18:18 |
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http://www.456fis.org/F-106_Craches.…
Three F-106s were on a ACM (Air Combat Maneuvers) that day when 58-0787 went into a flat spin and according to procedures, Captain Gary Faust bailed out at 15K feet. One of the accompanying F-106 pilots, IP Major Jimmy Lowe, observed the ejection and also observed 58-0787 straighten out right after ejection and reportedly transmitted "Gary - you'd better get back in it!". Major Wolford got a call from the sheriff about an airplane sitting in a field with the engine running and wanted to know how to shut it off. The sheriff was advised to just let it run out of fuel.
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Jesse Shaffer
> McMike
12/30/2014 at 18:29 |
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Awesome, thanks for that link! Those photos are incredible.