In article <XnsA634857C510CFjohnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131>, john Szalay
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>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>news:nkrg2o01j8u@drn.newsguy.com:
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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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>>>> ...
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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.
My experience with the F-100s is strickly seeing them in the VietNam War.
The most interesting story I heard concerned TET of 1968 with the North
Vietnamese attacking everywhere...including Ben Hoa where I flew out of.
Witnesses told me of watching F-100s stationed at Ben Hoa AFB taking off &
dropping their ordnance on enemy positions before their wheels were fully up.
I was there for TET of 1969 and it was quiet.
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