Self landing F-106

[mako88sb]

Always been a big fan of this century series fighter and stumbled upon this today. Pretty amazing to say the least.


There's some great comments including the one from someone who helped repair it after the incident. Another one by somebody in Germany who seen something similar with a French Mirage.

[Commander Wallace]

Incredible story. The pilot, Major Gary Faust said the aircraft righted itself after he ejected. If it flew on, I'm wondering why he ejected or didn't wait a little bit although he said it was in a flat spin.

The pilot said the F-106 landed itself in a frozen cornfield with 6in. of snow. The F-106 suffered no structural damage at all. It returned to service and is now in the museum. This is unbelievable.

I always liked the delta wing F-106 and the Thunder chiefs or " thuds " The F-106 looks a lot like the French Mirage fighters.

[Oberon]

http://www.ejectorseats.co.uk/ejecti..._a_harrier.htm

[mako88sb]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

I always liked the delta wing F-106 and the Thunder chiefs or " thuds " The F-106 look a lot like the French Mirage fighters.

There is some great youtube videos of former pilots doing walkarounds and you should check out the one on the F-105 if you haven't seen it yet. They haven't done the F-106 yet. Hopefully soon:

[Gargamel]

What the hell man.... quit stalking me! I just watched this on Youtube after a random video binge..

[Eichhörnchen]

Good to see both pilot and aircraft recorded on film for posterity; so many great stories only come to us in writing, second-hand, decades after the event and with all protagonists long gone.

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by mako88sb

There is some great youtube videos of former pilots doing walkarounds and you should check out the one on the F-105 if you haven't seen it yet. They haven't done the F-106 yet. Hopefully soon:

Thanks for the " Steer in " with regards to the F-105 Videos. I like these videos with first hand accounts from the pilots themselves. I saw a video of Brigadier General Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager and his account of flying the Bell X-1. As most know, General Yeager and the X-1 were the first to " sucessfully " fly faster than the speed of sound. The original X-1 is at the

National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC

Again, thanks for posting the video.

[mako88sb]

I was in my teens when I read a book about the B-17's during WW2 and there was a similar story about one landing by itself that's even more amazing. I don't remember the part about it doing the whole pattern prior to landing. Maybe a bit of embellishment with that part.:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/wor...e-onboard.html

[Catfish]

Already in 1910..

"The dove flew extremely intrinsically stable by the based on the winged seeds of Zanonia Rankpflanze airfoil shape. A statement of the instructor in Wiener Neustadt to their students was that this, they should come in difficult flight conditions, the control should just let it go until the dove flew by itself is stable again. In one anecdote is reported that a mechanic at launch preparations the throttle a pigeon accidentally pushed on full throttle and fell off the plane. The aircraft lifted without pilot itself off and landed after the fuel was exhausted after 200 km on a smooth lawn."

In reality it was the pilot, Mr. Hirth, who had climbed out to start the engine but had left the throttle at the "full" position. When the engine sputtered to life, he did not manage to get into the seat in time, and saw his bird fly away.
Famous story here..