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The B-52 That Flew Home Without a Tail
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The B-52 That Flew Home Without a Tail
On January 10, 1964, Captain Charles Chuck Fischer landed a 480,000-lb B-52H Stratofortress at Blytheville Air Force Base in Arkansas after flying it for six hours with no vertical stabilizer. The tail had been sheared off by turbulence over the New Mexico mountains. The footage from that flight has been mandatory viewing for B-52 crews ever since. YouTube / FlakAlley Why the Test Was Happening The B-52 was designed in the 1950s for high-altitud…
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