NOW THIS WAS A LOW PASS

[Jason S.]

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That was for a movie that was actually made and released. No hoax about it.

Yep, that was Jessica Biel in the movie Stealth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382992/
Jason

[AirDOGGe]

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I know what you mean. It's hard to believe that plane made it home.



But miracles do happen, and did happen during the big war. I also find it hard to believe THIS B-17 made it home too. The entire nose was blasted off by a direct shell hit.




The story behind this photo can be found here: http://398th.org/History/Articles/Re...tressHome.html


Another seemingly unbelievable story is the (Israeli?) F-15 that flew home and landed on one wing. I never would have believed it if it weren't documented so well.


It's because of these and many more cases that I believe that Thunderbolt COULD have made it home.

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[Skyracer]

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That was for a movie that was actually made and released. No hoax about it.

The movie was real, I will give you that (I've seen it). The airplane was a complete hoax though.

[mcavanaugh55]

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The Mig-15 appears to be a Mig-17 (3 fences on the wings)

[AirDOGGe]

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I agree. You can see the differences in this photo of both aircraft:





In Juke's defense I must say that I have seen that photo mis-labeled on a few sites. To most non-aviation-savvy people every open-nose swept wing Russian jet is a Mig 15 and every radial-powered Japanese WWII fighter is a Zero...





Let me add that info says the Mig 17 tail strike happened during an airshow in Harrison, Arkansas in 1990.

[Coyote Chris]

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AirDOGGe, I know what you mean and I am trying to keep an open mind.
I have seen B-17s fly without tails and noses, but at least they had something to pull them through the air. I have to wonder if this P-47 didnt hit the prop on the landing roll. It would be more believable if there were dates, a pilot's name and account, etc. The F-15 is well documented and a good story. Great plane and pilot.

During Operation Chrome dome, my friend was an avionics tech at Mather AFB. One day in the early 1960s, a B-52 collided with a KC-135. Both landed safely at Mather, but the B-52 was missing its tail. The KC-135 was missing an engine and part of a wing tip. Armed guards were put around the B-52 till a new tail arrived and was installed. My friend was told this was all to be kept secret as for whatever reason the B-52 had been low on fuel and it took forever to get a tanker to it and the Air Force didnt want the Russians to figure out how few tankers there really were. Anyway, that is what they were told.

[First time Juke]

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Right the Mig-15 is obviously a Mig-17..rounded wingtip etc.

[Bob]

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AirDOGGe, I know what you mean and I am trying to keep an open mind.
I have seen B-17s fly without tails and noses, but at least they had something to pull them through the air. I have to wonder if this P-47 didnt hit the prop on the landing roll. It would be more believable if there were dates, a pilot's name and account, etc. The F-15 is well documented and a good story. Great plane and pilot.

During Operation Chrome dome, my friend was an avionics tech at Mather AFB. One day in the early 1960s, a B-52 collided with a KC-135. Both landed safely at Mather, but the B-52 was missing its tail. The KC-135 was missing an engine and part of a wing tip. Armed guards were put around the B-52 till a new tail arrived and was installed. My friend was told this was all to be kept secret as for whatever reason the B-52 had been low on fuel and it took forever to get a tanker to it and the Air Force didnt want the Russians to figure out how few tankers there really were. Anyway, that is what they were told.

I wonder if the real reaon for the secrecy was a nuke or two on board the B-52? Mather was a SAC airbase.

[AirDOGGe]

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During Operation Chrome dome, my friend was an avionics tech at Mather AFB. One day in the early 1960s, a B-52 collided with a KC-135. Both landed safely at Mather, but the B-52 was missing its tail. The KC-135 was missing an engine and part of a wing tip. Armed guards were put around the B-52 till a new tail arrived and was installed. My friend was told this was all to be kept secret as for whatever reason the B-52 had been low on fuel and it took forever to get a tanker to it and the Air Force didnt want the Russians to figure out how few tankers there really were. Anyway, that is what they were told.

I know a similar story, though the tail loss was not by collision....I posted it in here only last month

That thread also includes video of the VERY fortunate aircraft in flight. Here's a link to it.

LINK: http://www.aafo.com/hangartalk/showthread.php?t=8762

[jarrodeu]

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But miracles do happen, and did happen during the big war. I also find it hard to believe THIS B-17 made it home too. The entire nose was blasted off by a direct shell hit.




The story behind this photo can be found here: http://398th.org/History/Articles/Re...tressHome.html

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I'm not sure that in-flight photo is the same B-17 as in the link.
Still an amazing story.

Jarrod

[AirDOGGe]

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Yeah, I know.

I wasn't sure myself, but they described the damage in the text, and their mentioning of the sheet metal folded back blocking the windscreen resembled the photo. I felt it was close enough to use as a visual example, if not the actual plane mentioned.

I do know I've seen this photo in a book before and the caption for it said the B-17 made it to SOME save haven, perhaps to another non-hostile country.

I do also recall the old photo saying that the pilots were lost in this incident, and the crew had to "jury-rig" what remained of the controls to get to safety, be it home or where ever. That alone would disqualify this story as being matched to the photo.

[Chad Veich]

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Yeah, I know.

I wasn't sure myself, but they described the damage in the text, and their mentioning of the sheet metal folded back blocking the windscreen resembled the photo. I felt it was close enough to use as a visual example, if not the actual plane mentioned.

I do know I've seen this photo in a book before and the caption for it said the B-17 made it to SOME save haven, perhaps to another non-hostile country.

I do also recall the old photo saying that the pilots were lost in this incident, and the crew had to "jury-rig" what remained of the controls to get to safety, be it home or where ever. That alone would disqualify this story as being matched to the photo.

The caption for this photo in the book I have says that it held this position only for a few seconds before going out of control and crashing.

[Fugari]

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""or the Hamilton Standard prop. ""
Not that it matters but that's a Curtiss electic prop!