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From: rogers@orion.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Toughness of Boeing craft
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Date: 11 Nov 88 14:49:04 GMT
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I have seen in WWII footage a B-17 getting the 'stick' of bombs
right where the wing joins the fusalage.  this plane then
dropped like a rock, but it didn't roll much or spin.

I also have seen pictures of B-17 limping back to some runway in england
where planes in all states of damage (no gear, half the tail gone ...)
come in and make emergency landings
 
I saw this on a show called WORLD AT WAR, or one of its clones.
Great footage for planes in some episodes