belly landing

Spitfire: A Very British Love Story

by John Nichol  · 16 May 2018  · 522pp  · 144,605 words

position and course. The nearest airfield was Westerland, on the island of Sylt, just off the Denmark peninsula. They headed straight for it, making a belly-landing. They had survived. Just. It was a testament to the He111’s durability. It had been estimated that bombers needed to be hit a maximum

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a 109 head-on. Neither broke off and they collided. The German lost an entire wing, the Spitfire its wingtip. As the fighter made a belly-landing, with Hurricanes struggling to provide overhead cover, the pilot jumped out and dashed for cover. As he did so, bullets kicked up the ground around

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crew then came running to pick him up and get him into an ambulance to the field hospital. Like many pilots who had performed a belly-landing, Robbie had discovered that the Spitfire was resilient in protecting its pilots as it broke up. Only his shoulder was bruised from the crash. ‘The

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persistently refused to settle in his gunsight. Grislawski had to break away, allowing the Russian to make it back to safety, albeit via a skilful belly-landing. The Soviets decided to put their best pilots in the new aircraft, as Chernetsov proved. ‘These pilots were not your average Russians. These fellows know

Frozen in Time

by Mitchell Zuckoff  · 4 Mar 2013

into pieces during a hard landing on snow and ice. Smith also knew that the most challenging part of the rescue might not be the belly landing, but the very act of flying over Greenland in the midst of winter. Pritchard and the Duck had done fine in landings and takeoffs, but

Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

by Beth Macy  · 14 Jul 2014  · 473pp  · 140,480 words

in Hungary. A fellow fighter pilot’s blast backfired, knocking out the cooling system of his plane, and the man was forced to make a belly landing deep in enemy territory. From the air, Wyatt watched it unfold in his single-seat plane, prompting a radio discussion among the pilots about what

Speed

by Bob Gilliland and Keith Dunnavant  · 319pp  · 84,772 words

make the plane less combustible on impact, less likely to explode in a fireball if they were forced to scrape across the runway in a belly landing. He kept tinkering, at one point turning the controls over to Robert—“Just hold it steady, son”—so he could use both hands to investigate

Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall  · 13 Sep 2005  · 781pp  · 226,928 words

in November 1980. “Jack flew me and my wife to Las Vegas for Comdex, and also our honeymoon, on the loaner PET Jet after the belly landing in Iowa,” says Feagans. “That was my first meeting with Jim Finke.” At the newly reopened Moorpark offices, where the disk drive designers now resided

GCHQ

by Richard Aldrich  · 10 Jun 2010  · 826pp  · 231,966 words

arrived unannounced in East Germany. Again the pilots had run out fuel, but this time they could not find a runway, and opted for a belly landing in a field. After a suitable delay for technical inspection of the radio warfare equipment on board, the Meteor was again returned by the Soviets

The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

by Randy Komisar  · 15 Mar 2000  · 385pp  · 48,143 words

companies, including their own successful startups. But because of Bill, no one pulled the cord. Everyone rode that plane all the way down to a belly landing. When I finally did leave GO in 1993, it wasn't clear what I wanted to do next. In the years we worked together, Campbell