A Sudden Prop Governor Jam Over Belgium—And How One Thunderbolt Pilot Held 2,700 RPM by Hand
Автор: Sky Combat Fail Logs
Загружено: 2025-12-09
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A forgotten WWII story that almost sounds impossible—yet every word comes straight from military records.
On February 14th, 1945, First Lieutenant Robert Hoover faced one of the deadliest mechanical failures a pilot could encounter: a runaway propeller at 18,000 feet. Overspeeding beyond 3,200 RPM, shaking the aircraft apart, and seconds from total structural failure, Hoover attempted something no manual, no doctrine, and no instructor had ever taught.
He reached out of the cockpit… and pressed his bare hand against a spinning propeller.
What happened next defies engineering, physics, and belief.
This is the true story of the P-47 Thunderbolt pilot who survived by doing the unthinkable — a moment of instinct, desperation, and sheer will that echoes far beyond that February morning over Germany.
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