Robert M. Gary wrote:
The special about it on History channel (about 2 years ago) said that
at first Boeing didn't believe it really happened until they sent their
engineers out. They explaination is that the body itself generates so
much lift it could still fly. If you think about the amount of G's
those planes can pull and the amount of load (bombs , etc) they can
carry they must have an enormous amount of excess lift.


Its not about excess of lift, but of the fact that lift was generated on
one side only... it's not like having only one engine working...

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Leonard