Yep- - - -that's how we made it home a few times with gaping holes in the plane where all that sophisticated stuff used to be! One B-52 I remember made it back to Okinawa with a 4-foot hole in the right wing when a turbine-driven hydraulic pump blew up inflight.
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!