Originally Posted by
hoodie
Held accountable for what? Not reacting with a fleetwide solution within
3 days?
Regarding the USN TACAMO (E-6, presumably); why did the fin fail? The aircraft should have been in a balanced steep turn, surely? Hence no significant fin side loads should have been present.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/02...4494603608400/
" SEATTLE -- A Navy Boeing 707, returning from a test flight designed to push the craft beyond its design limits, landed safely Thursday with portions of its rear vertical tail and right rudder missing, officials said.
Boeing officials said the plane, which is the prototype of 16 707s the company is making for the military, took off from Boeing Field in Seattle about noon for a flight to Bellingham and back.
The plane lost about one-third of its vertical tail fin and a small part of its right rudder while a Boeing test pilot was conducting a 'flutter' test on the plane over the Olympic Peninsula, a test designed to push the airplane beyond its design limits.
A Boeing spokesman said the pilot had no difficulty flying or landing the plane after the incident occurred...."
as to the B52- check history for B-52- and then ask why somone did NOT restrict- cancel hold- stop NUKE ARMED training flights at low level immediately after test failure.
