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Truth is Stranger Than Fiction - Fighter Jet in Cornfield

This was sent to me in an email from a friend in Texas who did serve in the US Air Force for awhile.

1970, while assigned to the 71st FIS at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, its pilot ejected during an inflight emergency.
The pilot somehow got himself into a flat spin -- considered generally unrecoverable in an F-106 –and he did what the flight handbook said to do -- get out of it, i.e., eject.


After the pilot did just that, 58-0787 recovered itself from this "unrecoverable" situation. In a vain attempt to break the spin, the pilot had lowered half flaps, rolled in takeoff trim, and throttled the engine back to an approach power setting.



After the ejection, the aircraft recovered from the spin on its own, and established a wings level low rate descent under reduced power to the ground. Ground effect broke its rate of descent, and it settled into a near-perfect gentle belly landing in a farmer's snow-covered cornfield.



When the local sheriff came upon the scene, the engine was still running. The aircraft was situated on a slight incline, and was creeping forward slowly under the thrust of its still-running engine, as the snow compressed to ice under it.


The attached photos show pretty much what the sheriff beheld on that fateful day. A depot team from McClellan AFB recovered the aircraft and it was eventually returned to service. When the 71st FIS was disbanded in 1971,

58-0787, now famously known as the "Cornfield Bomber, was transferred to the 49th FIS, where it finished out its operational service life.

Pilots of the 49th FIS would occasionally run into ex-71st FIS guys at William Tell and rag them unmercifully about the "emergency" so dire that the plane landed itself.

58-0787 is now on permanent display in its 49th FIS markings at the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB, where its story is told in the exhibit.

While the 49th FIS Eagle jocks are reportedly glad to see their squadron immortalized in this way for millions to see, they would prefer to see it made more clear that it was the 71st, and not one of theirs, who jumped out of this perfectly good aircraft.

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The Problem of Watchblog Popes Both Female & Male

It seems like postings on Biblical Thought about John Piper are becoming more "gossip" and less "fair & balanced".

I miss iMonk as he was a voice of reason in an age that appears to favor burning strawman or posting gossip on those others who are not part of our Christian camp.

Adrian Warnock has become more a person I read and find myself in agreement with than the radical young and restless reformed persons who desire to call down fire from heaven on any group or person who doesn't accept their gospel message.  Frankly, I am becoming scared of so-called Christians with Watchblogs.

The danger is that within the reformed movement we can each set ourselves up as our own pope and be submitted to no one. We might feel so confident of our own judgment that we sit in judgment of other believers. How do so many dare to pronounce so readily against the decisions of a godly man like John Piper? What gives any of us the right to determine with absolute confidence who should be in the “in crowd” and who not? Why do we feel the need to have a list of “acceptable” people to listen to and “unacceptable” and then impose it on everyone else?

Surely what is more important is that we understand the biblical truth for ourselves so we can readily identify error. If we have a firm grasp on what we believe, and we are convinced that we believe that because of what the Bible says, why would we be so threatened by someone who believes the vast majority of what we do but might differ on a few minor points of doctrine and matters of style? Do we think that one or two talks are going to unravel years of faithful study and listening to godly preachers?

Online one of the dangers is that we forget we are dealing with people and turn them into faceless enemies for us to hurl abuse at. I think that many in some of these arguments almost seem to forget that Piper and Warren are human beings, and more than that, our brothers in Christ. We should not wage war against them. Warren has tweeted before about his disappointment and bewilderment that the reformed people “hate” him. He also asked “why to those who love grace so much show so little of it?”

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MRWBBIII - GOD'S NEWEST SELF-APPOINTED WATCHMAN WITH A WATCHBLOG

I suppose I should feel honored that traffic to my WordPress blog called “True Faith Defender” is high enough to get periodic trolls who spam my blog postings with attacks on other Christians in order to get traffic to their Watchblog. The latest pest who has come in the name of the Lord is MRWBBIII (Yes that is the real name he uses and I have no clue why?).

This self-appointed Watchman of God it appears slanders anyone in the name of the Lord including Phil Johnson of “Grace to You”. He has not only spammed my blog with this trash postings advertizing for this blog called “MRWBBIII’s BLOG” on WordPress but other Christian blogs as well.

Beyond question, he is another Stephen Macasil want-to-be except Macasil at least came up with a better blog name like “Biblical Thought”. My impression is that “MRWBBIII” is as stupid has his name implies and his blog name of “MRWBBII’s BLOG” appears to confirm. He is beyond question yet another HSDN (Hyper-Spiritual Discernmentalist Nut) on the internet who Atheist will use as a poster boy as to why Christianity is the disease of the mentally ill. Satan welcomes the new defender of the Faith on the internet who advances the Devil’s agenda at the expense of the LORD’s agenda.

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