DJS... Youd be suprises how far a jet can glide without any power. If you lose both engines on a 2 engine jet at 36,000 ft you can glide a long ways. Probably 80-100 miles.
Yep. Some of you may recall the "
Gimli Glider" -- a jet that ran out of fuel between Montreal and Winnipeg and glided 50 or 80 miles on an old WW2 airbase at Gimli, Manitoa (which was, at that time, a dragstrip).
By co-incidence, this pilot's hobby was flying gliders...
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More about the Gimli Glider One runway had been converted to a dragstrip and the plane landed on it. Although I had been there for the drag races atother times I was not there that day, but I knew somebody who was there that day. Yes --
a whoppin' great airliner landed on the dragstip on race day, scattering folks and barbecues!
The nose gear collapsed because it was not locked (no hydraulics), but there were only minor injuries. Later, they fixed the nose gear, and flew the plane back out.
Wish I had gone that day! Would have been something to see for sure!
John
