And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, November 4, 2024
North American F-100 Airplane (NACA 709), with Pilot George Cooper. What happens if a goose gets sucked into that intake?
He gets to test how well it glides and possibly test the ejection seat too. Everything that enters a fighter jet's intake goes into the axial compressor with its fragile blades. Al_in_Ottawa
Hopefully the compressor chews the goose and spits it out the backside. But what mostly will happen is engine go boom, big badda boom and you meet the after-action report committee on the other side of the Pearly Gates.
Or you get a flameout and you try to restart the damned thing and you fight it and fight it and about the time you think of ejecting you hit the ground or the plane enters into a serious spin and breaks up and you die.
Maybe, just maybe, you can eject. Possibly dead stick the beast into a better position so you don't get whacked by the tail. And remember, elbows pointed in so you don't shave them off on the way out.
Another fine piece of hoss flesh from North American's stable. Spoiled by the once in lifetime beauty of the F-86, it took me awhile to appreciate the F-100, first of the "Century Fighters". To wit; first aircraft to exceed mach-1 in level flight. First aircraft outfitted to perform Wild Weasel missions over North Vietnam. Did fine business accomplishing low-level forward air control missions.
Cooper flew well over 145 different aircraft types: fixed wing, rotary, lighter than air, seaplane, prop and jet. Shot down at least 4 German aft, chief test pilot for NACA then NASA for many years. Retired and ran a very successful winery and flew west in his mid-90's....a life well lived.
He gets to test how well it glides and possibly test the ejection seat too. Everything that enters a fighter jet's intake goes into the axial compressor with its fragile blades.
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I had one of those Revel plastic F-100 models back in the day.
ReplyDeleteArctic ducks are more dangerous because eider the plane crashes or it does not.
ReplyDeleteYou mean 'eider' the plane goes 'down'?
DeleteDead duck and hopefully a pilot with only dirty underwear
ReplyDeleteHopefully the compressor chews the goose and spits it out the backside. But what mostly will happen is engine go boom, big badda boom and you meet the after-action report committee on the other side of the Pearly Gates.
ReplyDeleteOr you get a flameout and you try to restart the damned thing and you fight it and fight it and about the time you think of ejecting you hit the ground or the plane enters into a serious spin and breaks up and you die.
Maybe, just maybe, you can eject. Possibly dead stick the beast into a better position so you don't get whacked by the tail. And remember, elbows pointed in so you don't shave them off on the way out.
The simplest answer is nothing good…
ReplyDeleteThe goose is cooked.
ReplyDeleteThat’s what I was gonna say! Well done. Literally.
DeleteAnother fine piece of hoss flesh from North American's stable. Spoiled by the once in lifetime beauty of the F-86, it took me awhile to appreciate the F-100, first of the "Century Fighters".
ReplyDeleteTo wit; first aircraft to exceed mach-1 in level flight. First aircraft outfitted to perform Wild Weasel missions over North Vietnam. Did fine business accomplishing low-level forward air control missions.
The Misty FACs over The Trail are covered well by Bury Us Upside Down by Rick Newman and Don Sheppard.
DeleteOur Ohio air guard flew these in Korea during the Viet Nam troubles…..
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ReplyDeleteMy brother had that happen in a T-37. Fortunately, it has 2 engines.
ReplyDeleteThe F-100 was a bit of a widowmaker. Very poor control at low speeds, and stalled easy.
ReplyDeleteCooper flew well over 145 different aircraft types: fixed wing, rotary, lighter than air, seaplane, prop and jet. Shot down at least 4 German aft, chief test pilot for
ReplyDeleteNACA then NASA for many years. Retired and ran a very successful winery and flew west in his mid-90's....a life well lived.