Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
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> In article <XnsA6346D4D41302johnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131>, john
> Szalay says...
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>>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in news:nkrbe2019n1
>>@drn.newsguy.com:
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> Never would have happened if the brakes had been checked/adjusted by
> Midas!
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> ...just sayin'
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On the first NACA research flight of airplane #52-5778, pilot Scott
Crossfield had to make a powerless "deadstick" landing following an
engine fire warning. This was something North American's own test pilots
doubted could be done, for the early F-100 lacked flaps and landed "hot
as hell." Crossfield followed up the flawless approach and landing by
coasting off the lakebed, up the ramp, and then through the front door of
the NACA hangar, frantically trying to stop the F-100A, which had used up
its emergency brake power. Crossfield missed the NACA X fleet, but
crunched the nose of the aircraft through the hangar's side wall. It is
reported that Chuck Yeager then proclaimed that while the sonic wall had
been his, the hangar wall was Crossfield's!
The hangar wall and the F-100A were repaired, and the airplane flew
again.
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