in a flat spin,
a phenomenon in which the aircraft stalls and quickly loses altitude while spinning from wing to wing, once this happens, the aircraft is usually very difficult to recover, losing height at an alarming rate at 15,000 feet Captain Gary Faust decided to bail out, his team mates had been giving him help in spin recovery, but it was now getting downright dangerous to stay with the craft, this happened on February
2, 1970, when three F-106 Delta Darts took off from the Malmstrom Air Force Base
(which is near Great Falls in Montana) for a routine training mission, after ejecting, the aircraft left unmanned for the trip helped by Mr. Gravity, the plane plummeted to the earth, and landed with a few scratches and no structural damage! and except for some superficial scratches on its underside,
it was still flight-worthy and later put back in active service,
so how did all of this happen? from
his parachute, Gary watched incredulously as the now-pilotless aircraft glided
down gently and skidded to a halt on a wheat field near Big Sandy, Montana, Gary drifted into the nearby mountains, and was later rescued by local
residents, as for the aircraft it is thought that the reduction in weight and change in center of gravity caused by the removal
of the pilot, coupled with the blast force of his seat rocketing out of the
plane pushing the nose of the aircraft down, changed the dynamics of the
falling aircraft causing it to miraculously recover from the spin! what are the chances of that ever happening again?
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