RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
May 31, 2023 at 8:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2023 at 8:03 pm by Anomalocaris.)
In 1955, Grumman test pilot Tom Attridge flying a navy F-11 fighter jet became the first pilot to shoot down his plane with its own gun. In a shallow descent, he fire a burst from the fighter’s cannons. He then lit the afterburner and continued the descent. The cannon shell’s trajectory decayed while his plane accelerated, until they crossed paths again and shells struck the plane from above. The plane was seriously damaged and crash landed.