Pilotless plane
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Something like that, but level and 20k feet.
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I have some books, who describes the life of pilots fighters during WW2 .
It often happened that , for some reasons , the pilot was unable to fly his plane (mostly because he fainted : excessive G-forces during battle , pilot injured etc …) . It’s funny and interesting to read that the guys could faint , then wake up 150 nm farther out of nowhere, level flying at 25000ft , and totally lost …
150 nm with piston engines , means at least 30min during which the plane was flying freely …
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When I was getting my Private ticket, my Instructor did a demo with me where he had me trim up the airplane nicely and then take my hands off the controls - he then shoved the yoke forward sharply and we just sat there as the airplane oscillated down, up, down, up…until it settled right back to the altitude and speed I’d trimmed it to. If I recall it took maybe 3 to 5 oscillations for that C152.
If you leave the airplane totally alone long enough and nothing gets in it’s way, that’s what they all do.
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Espacially when the plane is stable.
We also have two stories where plane without pilot landed itselves:https://theaviationist.com/2012/10/03/mig23-belgium/
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/cornfield-bomber-f-106-delta-dart.html
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I’ve seen a ghost Su-25 during my first BMS campaign (4.33U5), flying perfectly steady and level towards Soul. I think I saw when the pilot ejected, what’s for sure is that there was no canopy and no one inside. Followed this eerie and magical spectacle for quite a few minutes. Will tell grandchildren.
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We lost a Viper driver off the coast of CA a few years back…they aren’t sure what really happened, but thinking was/is that he either G-LOC’d or went hypoxic and the jet trimmed out heading out to sea. They sent a couple more F-16s out to chase him and try to rouse him but they had to break off at point of no return. He splashed someplace in the Pacific…never heard anything more about it.
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Wow, poor guy. What a way to go though.
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…I got a worse one - I met a guy once that took a cold cat off the CV, ejected, and then got run over by the CV…and lived to fly again!
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Omg ….
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Laurent , please clear some room in your pm box.
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Laurent , please clear some room in your pm box
Done !!!
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…I got a worse one - I met a guy once that took a cold cat off the CV, ejected, and then got run over by the CV…and lived to fly again!
A-7?
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We lost a Viper driver off the coast of CA a few years back…they aren’t sure what really happened, but thinking was/is that he either G-LOC’d or went hypoxic and the jet trimmed out heading out to sea. They sent a couple more F-16s out to chase him and try to rouse him but they had to break off at point of no return. He splashed someplace in the Pacific…never heard anything more about it.
If he G-LOC
d he
d rather regained counciousness i thing, maybe the latter…Is there any way to get peas the migs unnoticed? They always see me first…
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If he G-LOC
d he
d rather regained counciousness i thing, maybe the latter…It’s also possible he may have broken his neck - not everyone can wear an HMCS, I know a gal that is marginal on that because of her neck size…so she only wears hers when it’s mission critical.
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We lost a Viper driver off the coast of CA a few years back…they aren’t sure what really happened, but thinking was/is that he either G-LOC’d or went hypoxic and the jet trimmed out heading out to sea. They sent a couple more F-16s out to chase him and try to rouse him but they had to break off at point of no return. He splashed someplace in the Pacific…never heard anything more about it.
Too bad they could not eject him remotely, and pick him up
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In the eighties a Mig-23 took off from poland behind the iron curtain and the pilot ejected after a power surge (ill famed on the Mig-23)
The aircraft crashed finally in Belgium…It was intercepted over Germany by F-15 and they clearly saw the aircraft without canopy, Apparently noone could decide what to do and unfortunately the aircraft finally crashed after flaming out into a house Killing 1 young guy.
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Roger posted that story at post#8
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Sorry I didn’t notice as it was external links.