The Time a B-52 Landed Without a Tail Fin. A midair accident meant the crew had to learn to fly without a tail fin—and fast.

[rangerrebew]

The Time a B-52 Landed Without a Tail Fin

A midair accident meant the crew had to learn to fly without a tail fin—and fast.


By Kyle Mizokami
Aug 1, 2017


In 1964, a B-52H crew was pushing the bomber to its limits when suddenly things went very wrong. The vertical stabilizer—the tail fin—sheared off in flight, forcing the crew to make a wild emergency landing. They succeeded, and the U.S. Air Force later produced this film to explain to aircrews what had happened, what factors led to the successful landing, and what was being done to prevent incidents like it from reoccurring.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/news/a27584/b-52-landed-without-a-tail-fin/

[SZonian]

Vertical stabilizer..."tail fin"   

[GtHawk]

Vertical stabilizer..."tail fin"   

Tail Fin,  Vertical Stabalizer?.....................Finnish Tail?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIeMiJvI5V8

Sorry

[SZonian]

Tail Fin,  Vertical Stabalizer?.....................Finnish Tail?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIeMiJvI5V8

Sorry

[Mad Max]

There is a book named "15 Minutes:General Curtis LeMay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation" by L Douglas Keeney which discusses this subject and SAC related issues. It discusses how Edward Teller proposed a ten gigaton bomb but the Air Force never funded the project. It would be the ultimate doomsday planet killer.It would probably crack the crust of the Earth.How would you deliver such bomb in that magnitude? Maybe there is a design in existence but its very classified.