Fiery landing at Moscow airport.
Now the pilot is accused of the botched landing, despite the fact that the plane lost electricity after it was struck by a lightning.
I am going here soon.
Gun camera footage.
If youāre attacking from behind which seems to be the norm, you canāt get too close to the prey because of all kinds of debris flying around
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How about an A-10 landing minus canopy and landing gear and another with about a 1/3 or one wing shot off?
This poor bastard just had his plane shot to pieces and still brought it home successfully.
Thereās another Iām trying to find where literally the outboard 1/3 of the starboard wing is just gone and it still was successfully landed.
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Captain, can you fly?
Draco, short landing and takeoff champion
You should look up further in this thread, this was already posted.
It happens more than people think.
About 45 years ago it happened on a trip to AK for two of my dadās buddies, their bush pilot, flying a Twin Otter died of a stroke on final approach.
The brothers were WWII pilots that hadnāt touched a stick since 45. The older brother had flown multi engine bombers and transports but had gone blind, his brother was a glider pilot.
The blind guy talked him through his one and only water landing ever.
When they got home Bob bought a a Piper Apache with twin turbo 220ās and decided heād really learn to fly.
At 15 after getting certified he was the guy that got me into flying because he knew my intent to fly for the Army when the newest version of the Apache came was fielded under the āGrade School to Flight Schoolā program.
I didnāt find out till years later that the only reason he got his instructor rating was to help me. Hell of a guy.
Interesting story. It helped that the guy had some basic flying experience. That King Air is a nice plane too.
Yep, awful nice plane just a whole nuther league.
His blind brother had also been a pilot trainer leading up to the war and they had absolute trust in one another so Bob had a clear advantage over the average guy just being talked in by GC.
He never got to pin pilot wings on me because the quota was met the day before my Final Board but he and dad flew to Benning to Pin on my Jump Wings.
We called them ābullwinkles,ā after basic training was complete at FT Campbell, on to FT Benning for the airborne training.
āChicken Jumpersā. The only time they are airborne is while sitting in the flying chopper 
The guy who built Draco crashed it during a takeoff in a strong wind.
OK, he blames himself.
Sadly it was an idea that never made much sense. They should have stuck with a single cockpit in the middle where it belongs.
Oh, if theyād done that it would have been a P-38!
It seems like it was just a quick fix to solving a problem for the short term
War does that. There were some really wild aircraft that came out of the war.
A lot of them never went anywhere and were basically proof of concept developments.
One of the craziest ever here.
Thereās almost unlimited money available anytime thereās a war on and everyone wantās to take their shot at getting some of it.
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