Air Force pilot earns Distinguished Flying Cross after landing A-10 with damaged gear, no canopy
How does a misfire even cause the canopy to fly off and the landing gear to seize up? I suppose an incendiary round exploded inside the chamber or barrel of the cannon?
Whatever happened seems to have triggered the emergency canopy release. Which ties in with the pilot deciding not to use the ejector seat. But that’s just a guess, of course.
Missing Alan Turing memorabilia to be returned to Blighty from the US, 36 years after it went walkabout
Missing Alan Turing memorabilia is to be returned to the UK from the US, after it went missing from his old boarding school.
The items – including photos, school reports, and Turing’s OBE medal – disappeared from the famous British Sherborne School where Turing was educated decades ago. They turned up hidden in the Colorado home of Julia Mathison Turing (no relation) in 2018.
Seems to be a nice guy.
One of the rounds didnt fire when it was supposed to. On the A-10 the rounds are in a continuous chain, so the spent rounds arent ejected. They stay in the aircraft.
One of the rounds fizzled, and then went off after it had already left the firing chamber. The expanding gas from the round misfiring blasted off the canopy and a few other panels.
You stay classy, Rockmart!
And how was the pigeon?
Delicious!
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