Interesting tale from WWII

[Chuck Peterson]

Douglas built them tough...Great story and pictures

http://www.cnac.org/aircraft02.htm


Chuck

[Tom]

Cool story. I'd like to keep this kind of information alive in the
minds of folks. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Tom

[Richard Riley]

That they did.

http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/photos/i_history_2.jpg

[vincent p. norris]

>Douglas built them tough...

Yes, but so did Boeing (you've seen the photos of B-17s that came back
with most of the tail missing) and the Grumman Iron Works (Fly Boys
contains a photo of a TBF/TBM flying with half a wing on one side.

vince norris

[Richard Riley]

then there's this -

http://www.uss-bennington.org/phz-nowing-f15.html

about the F-15 that lost it's entire right wing in a mid air - and
landed safely at 290 knots.

There are also a number of stories of 707's that lost large wing
sections and made it. Pan Am 843 had a and engine explode, which
ignited a fuel tank, which burned off 28 feet of wing. But it landed
safely.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=News&id=1791801

[Morgans]

"Richard Riley" > wrote

> There are also a number of stories of 707's that lost large wing
> sections and made it. Pan Am 843 had a and engine explode, which
> ignited a fuel tank, which burned off 28 feet of wing. But it landed
> safely.
>
> http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=News&id=1791801

Anyone know of a link, that has pictures of this damaged 707? Google
turned up nothing.
--
Jim in NC

[gatt]

"Richard Riley" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> That they did.
>
> http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/photos/i_history_2.jpg

The first thing that came to mind when I saw that photo was "Shark Week."

-c

[Montblack]

("gatt" wrote)
<http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/photos/i_history_2.jpg>

> The first thing that came to mind when I saw that photo was "Shark Week."


I thought of the Army and all the various (typewriter) paperwork "Damage"
forms that needed processing.

Damage: Zero


Montblack

[gatt]

"Montblack" > wrote in message
...

> I thought of the Army and all the various (typewriter) paperwork "Damage"
> forms that needed processing.
>
> Damage: Zero

LOL!

'"If it's got zero damage," said the CO, "get the damned thing back on the
flight line."

=c