Posted: 11/12/2004 3:42:13 PM EDT
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Unfortunately...scratch one Prowler. You wouldn't want to subject a plane that has had such questionable forces applied to it out to a carrier for traps and cats. |
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Depending on the damage and how hard it hit. I helped work on an A-7 that had it's nose gear collapse on landing, the pilot pulled the nose back up and let the airspeed bleed off and then gently set the nose down on the deck. Three weeks later and it FCF'ed 4.0. I watched a VFA-305 Lobo F-18A land wheels up. It had a 1200 foot landing "scrape", ground down the drop tanks and the wing tips and the belly. It was up and flying two months later.
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