Experimental and Hypothetical Aircraft

By John Farrier in Science & Tech on Jul 14, 2009 at 8:42 am

X Planes is a photoblog of experimental, hypothetical, and outright imaginary aircraft throughout modern aviation history. The picture above is of a particular F-106:

On Feb 2nd, 1970, a Convair F-106 Delta Dagger was found in a snow-covered Montana field, pilot-less, landing gear up, and with the engine still running – the melting snow causing the aircraft to slowly move forward…

The pilot – Captain Gary Faust – had earlier ejected from the aircraft at 15,000 feet when it entered a flat spin. Amazingly, the un-piloted aircraft then recovered, to make a gentle “belly-up” landing…

Link via Instapundit

Tags: aircraft, aviation, Convair F-106, jet, X Planes

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Skipweasel
Jul 14th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Looks belly down to me. A belly-landing.
Elos Gallo
Jul 14th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Actually, it is a belly-landing. Or you could say gear-up belly landing if you want to be more precise.
FortWorthGuy
Jul 14th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Speaking of odd airplanes….below is a link to a National Geographic web page that has reconstructed a WWII era, German stealth fighter. Very interesting.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090625-hitlers-stealth -fighter-plane.html
Christophe
Jul 14th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Neat pics, bothersome browsing
Flu-Bird
Jul 15th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Looks like a F-4 PHANTOM jet from VIETNAM

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