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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
Again this wasn't the state of art aircraft that we are used to today. After the A-10 as mention the other aircraft is the C-130 in being able to survive...
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The C-47/DC-3 might rank up there, too. At least one lost a few feet off a wing to one of the Himalaya Mountains, and flew home. Another was rammed by a Japanese fighter and survived to come home. All this, and there are some still flying today, 70+ years after the design was first built.