Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsb!dsmith From: dsmith@hplabsb.HP.COM (David Smith) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Toughness of Boeing craft Message-ID: <4989@hplabsb.HP.COM> Date: 11 Nov 88 21:52:07 GMT References: <15090@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> Reply-To: dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 31 In article <15090@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> dmc@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Dave Cole) writes: >The only picture I've seen of a B-17 getting its one of it's >horizontal stabilizers blown off by a bomb stick being dropped >by a B-17 higher up was followed by a series of pictures showing >the B-17 spiralling into the ground.... Well, I saw what was probably the same picture that the previous poster referred to, and it was said in the caption to have made it back. While we're at it, let's give due recognition to British Aerospace. Check out AW&ST, Oct. 31, 1988, p.27. Photo included. "A British Aerospace 125-800 carrying the president of Botswana landed safely in Cuito Bie, Angola, after a heat-seeking missile fired from an Angolan fighter ripped off an engine and seriously damaged the right wing and fuselage. ... The aircraft apparently was the target of two air-to-air Soviet heat-seeking missiles, either AA-2 Atolls or AA-8 Aphids, fired from what is believed to have been an Angolan MiG-21. The first missile hit the starboard engine and destroyed it by ripping the entire pod off the aircraft. It is believed that the second missile hit the engine after it was off the aircraft. ... Botswana wants the same aircraft returned after repairs have been made." -- David Smith HP Labs dsmith@hplabs.hp.com