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In article , "John Carrier"
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Probably engine failure on the stroke. Possibly wrong weight setting on the
cat. The older catapults would use a given steam pressure to achieve a

A fully-loaded A-6 didn't have very good single-engine fly away capability.
The "something" was probably all the underwing stores. Pilot pushed the
emergency jettison and the pylons were cleaned off.

Yeah, I figured it was the stores, although I only saw one big thing falling
from one side of the plane.

The plane wasn't fully loaded, at least that much was evident. In fact, it
looked clean, which is why the big thing falling off was so odd.



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