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Subject: Re: Vought F-8 Crusader - 1 attachment
From: john Szalay <john.szalayatatt.net>
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Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:o1qsj701b0s@drn.newsguy.com:
> In article <XnsA6D1EACCCB63Bjohnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131>, john
> Szalay says...
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>> Folded wing flight.
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> https://theaviationist.com/2014/02/19/us-navy-fighters-folded-wings
>
> To save space aboard the deck of U.S. flattops, aircraft built for
> carrier operations can fold their wings making room for more planes.
>
> Obviously wings must be extended before catapult launch.
>
>
> Even if the pictures in this post show aircraft that were safely
> brought back without any trouble, for sure no aircraft can fly in
> those configurations.
>
> One case in which the wings were forgotten folded occurred in August
> 1960, when a US Navy F-8 took off from Naples and climbed to 5,000
> feet, when its pilot felt an amount of pressure on the stick:
> immediately, he started to look around to discover why its Crusader
> was facing the pressure amount and noticed that the wings were still
> folded.
>
> Instantly he started to dump as much fuel as possible, and after 24
> minutes of flight he was able to come back to Naples, landing safely.
>
> He said that his Crusader faced no serious problems during the unusual
> kind of flight and the landing had been very fast but uneventful.
>
> At least seven more times F-8s took off with wings folded, in several
> occasions at night, but without any mishap, proving Crusader strength
> and revealing the great job done by Vought engineers.
>
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> *
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Happened to an F-4 as well,
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