Strange airplanes/videos…



This is the Convair FY2 Sea Dart… A one of a kind…


It is/was the ONLY supersonic sea plane ever built!



This one is a B-52 that lost it’s ENTIRE rudder, flew 5 more hours and landed safely…  One of my cousins was at Blytheville, had just transitioned from B-58’s. when this thing landed, and told me about it YEARS ago, wondering if he was making the ‘right’ decision… 



This is the first time I’ve ever seen the video, and it took a LOT of balls to fly that thing in that condition for five hours!!!

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Strange airplanes/videos… — 13 Comments

  1. That B-52…wow. The use of the aft main gear to add some degree of vertical stabilization, fascinating.
    Total aside, coming from a completely non-military/non-science background where the language style favours persuasion over fact, it is always so refreshing to listen to that factual style of report: this is what happened, this is what was done, this is the result.

  2. Andy- Yep…

    AC- Yep the military and aviators especially tell the truth up front, because it just ‘might’ save somebody else!!!\\

    BP- AND he clanked when he walked…

    Alan- Probably! 🙂

  3. A B52-H model lost its tail on climeout at Grand Forks AFB in the 60s. Some said they borke the speed of sound.Landed ok.

  4. I wonder if they went back to look for missing section.

    Gerry

  5. Ed- If they did, the had to be in one hellva dive… 🙂

    Gerry- If I remember correctly, my cousin said they found ‘pieces’…

  6. Great job of saving that B-52. Lot of credit due to the engineers on the ground who did some fast calculations under the gun.

    Couldn’t help noticing those silly mustaches.

    Sea Dart? Bet the Marines could have used that.

  7. I remember the older B-52s had a different tail than the later ones. This may have lead to that design change.

    IIRC, I heard about this but the details are fuzzy. I’ve a story about a B-52 that ended up in the Keesler AFB Golf Course. I may write about that someday.

  8. Borepatch, I’m reminded of when one of the helicopter pilots was asked how he could fly with the noise of his brass ones clanking around in the cockpit.

    “I can’t hear them over the noise of my knees knocking together!”

    I bet it took that B52 driver quite a while before his butt let go of the deathgrip it had on his seat!

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