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F-106 lands on its own without pilot, dubbed "Corn Field Bomber"
Pilot ejected after flat spin could not be recovered, plane recovers on its own and make perfect gear up landing. (www.youtube.com) Más...
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Just good design, delta wings are dynamically stable. The nose down reaction of the ejection was all the airframe needed to recover. Cost was the reason the F-16XL was not the light fighter proposed design...
I don't remember this incident, but there are a few other cases where the pilot ejected and the aircraft continued on and slowly descended and made a "landing" mainly intact as the video of the F-106 shows.
This design needs to be in civilian airplanes, so some pilots who suck will get ejected when the airplane gets tired of them!!!
ooohhh my, my, This is a Pilot rich forum is't it? Wuz that flame bait?
BUT we have the know-how, just find the funding.
BUT we have the know-how, just find the funding.
A lot of the military aircraft (fighter/attack types) have auto recover feature in them. Some is as simple as letting go of the stick or pressing button on the stack of power control. If a pilot gets totally disoriented can not recover from a spin,etc., or can not recover from a black out, or any number of other reasons, just letting go of the stick and the plane will come out of.
There are some aircraft that if you just let go, they like to level them selves out. It is hard for a pilot (me too) to simply let go in a stall or spin and I would not do it unless I knew the aircraft inherently in the design/weight/balance/power could possibly recover itself.
I don't know of any commercial airliners that are equipped with the auto recover feature or not. If it is around, it might be in the A320 family or similar aircraft that use fly-by-wire where computers could take over. However, I don't know how the smaller light and biz aircraft are built.
There are some aircraft that if you just let go, they like to level them selves out. It is hard for a pilot (me too) to simply let go in a stall or spin and I would not do it unless I knew the aircraft inherently in the design/weight/balance/power could possibly recover itself.
I don't know of any commercial airliners that are equipped with the auto recover feature or not. If it is around, it might be in the A320 family or similar aircraft that use fly-by-wire where computers could take over. However, I don't know how the smaller light and biz aircraft are built.
