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My dad was a career U.S. Air Force fighter pilot. After returning from combat duty in the Korean War, he did a tour of duty as a ferry pilot. He made the Nort
by dctoedt 11y ago
My dad was a career U.S. Air Force fighter pilot. After returning from combat duty in the Korean War, he did a tour of duty as a ferry pilot. He made the North Atlantic crossing many times in single-engine jet fighters, often in winter. The planes usually crossed in flights of two or more aircraft. My dad said that he and his squadron mates had an informal agreement: If one of them had an engine failure, another one would get behind the troubled aircraft and try to push it to maintain air speed. Fortunately they never had to try it.
- sokoloff 11y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNbcPS3A9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNbcPS3A9c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardo%27s_Push https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardo%27s_Push
- gadders 11y agoThat is pretty cool. Pardo was an amazing guy.
- ubernostrum 11y agoThere was an incident in which an F-4 on a flight across the Atlantic lost an engine, and then began losing speed and altitude. A KC-135 tanker crew refueling the flight used their fuel boom to tow the F-4 back up to a safe altitude: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-time-a-tanker-saved-a-fighter-that-was-falling-apar-1733187406 http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-time-a-tanker-saved-a-f...