Pilot blinded in mid-air guided to safety by RAF jet


	Pilot blinded in mid-air guided to safety by RAF jet

Socratoad

11-7-2008 12:29 PM

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11-8-2008 12:41 PM

rowboat

Thats really something. What are the odds? The pilot must have been pretty darn good to be able to run his plane without being able to see the controls (or the ground!) just by voice command. I hope he will regain his sight.

11-8-2008 1:17 PM

Socratoad

This reminds me so much of this story:

The Shepherd

Author Frederick Forsyth
Cover artist Lou Peck
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date September 30, 1976
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 123 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-670-63969-9
The Shepherd is a 1976 novel by Frederick Forsyth, but is actually a well-known Royal Air Force story from considerably earlier.
The Shepherd relates the story of a De Havilland Vampire pilot, going home on Christmas Eve 1957, whose aircraft suffers a complete electrical failure over the North Sea en route from RAF Celle in northern Germany to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. Lost in fog and low on fuel, he ...

11-26-2008 2:57 PM

citizenbfk

Amazing true life adventures.

4-4-2009 1:57 PM

kmcolo

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