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by sbierwagen
1553 days ago
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>other than high-performance military fighter jets Recent, computer controlled jets, rather. Older jets were aerodynamically stable, probably because otherwise they would have been very fatiguing to fly. There are at least two well known instances of pilots ejecting from fighter jets that then recovered to normal flight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Belgium_MiG-23_crash >On 4 July 1989, a pilotless MiG-23 jet fighter of the Soviet Air Forces crashed into a house in Kortrijk, Belgium, killing one person. The pilot had ejected over an hour earlier near KoĊobrzeg, Poland, after experiencing technical problems, but the aircraft continued flying for around 900 km (600 mi) before running out of fuel and descending into the ground. [Where it killed a Belgian citizen on impact.] |
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