The “Stupid” Flap Trick That Let Him Outturn Fighters Twice as Fast
Автор: WW2 Wings Stories
Загружено: 2025-12-05
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WW2 September 1944. A lone American B-17 bomber over hostile Europe. Enemy fighters closing fast, guns blazing. The pilot does the impossible—he drops his landing flaps at two hundred miles per hour. His crew thinks he's lost his mind. The bomber wasn't built to maneuver like this.
Every manual forbids it. But Harold Seidel, a quiet farm kid from Wisconsin, had discovered something the engineers missed. In that violent, wrenching turn, he rewrote the survival odds for hundreds of airmen. This is the story of the Seidel Break—a field innovation born from desperation, validated by survival, and quietly adopted into doctrine.
It didn't come from headquarters or test pilots. It came from a man who understood machines as living things, who saw past the manual when the manual failed. Fifteen percent higher survival rates. Hundreds of lives saved. All because one pilot was willing to test the edge between physics and death.
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