Cornfield Bomber
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The "Cornfield Bomber" is the nickname given to a Convair F-106 Delta Dart of the United States Air Force's 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron which made an unpiloted landing in a farmer's field in Mon
The "Cornfield Bomber" after landing in a frozen Montana field, February 1970
The underside of 58-0787, showing the damage it received during its belly landing
The aircraft at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in 2016
Spin (aerodynamics)
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In flight dynamics, a spin is a special category of stall resulting in autorotation about the aircraft's longitudinal axis and a shallow, rotating, downward path approximately centred on a vertical ax
Cornfield Bomber
…Base adjacent to Great Falls, Montana. During a routine training flight conducting aerial combat maneuvers on February 2, 1970, the aircraft entered a flat spin. The pilot, First Lieutenant Gary Foust, deployed the aircraft's drag chute as a last resort while attempting to recover. When it failed, Foust ejected…
Spin — an aggravated stall and autorotation
Lincoln Beachey with his plane
An Avro Type G
A 1963 Cessna 172D