Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!sheppard From: sheppard@caen.engin.umich.edu (Kenneth Charles Sheppardson) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Toughness of Boeing craft Summary: By the way... Message-ID: <3f9bc744.5e37@dl5e37.engin.umich.edu> Date: 11 Nov 88 21:14:00 GMT References: <217@chip.UUCP> Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich. Lines: 26 In article <217@chip.UUCP>, dbowen@chip.UUCP (Donald Bowen) writes: > > An even more impressive and common photo shows a B17 returning > to England after a mid air. There is a long gash almost shearing off > the vertical stabilizer. The plane did make it. > > An even more impressive photo shows an Israeli F-15 flown back after having a wing torn off all the way to the root. The F-15 gets enough lift from its body ( apparently ) that all the pilot had to do was hang on for a while and bring it on home. Makes you appreciate the Israeli pilots... ...and makes you wonder why McDonnell Douglas didn't get the orbiter contract... I can see it now : The flyoff between the Boeing orbiter with no vertical stab and the McDD orbiter with no wing.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken Sheppardson Aero Engin Dept U of Michigan