Land F-15 with only one wing

[PeteRoy]

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[quakefiend420]

wow

 

[EyeMWing]

HAWT!

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
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yah saw that yesterday while researching the IAF interesting story

 

[Lonyo]

So did he land at 260 or 290 knots?

 

[MasterAndCommander]

Incredible feat of piloting, along with the technology of the fly-by-wire system to keep it from tumbling in the air.
I'm not sure about the F-15, but I'll bet it holds true for the Eagle - when I interviewed for a job an an F-14 repair facility, I was told the acutal fuselage of the Tomcat acts as a lifting body as well.

 

[stelleg151]

Holy ******. One thing though, if he was such a good pilot he wouldnt have hit the skyhawk in the first place...

 

[radioouman]

Looks chopped.

 

[AdamSnow]

Pretty cool if it's true...

 

[Savij]

It's true, and the F15 is definitely a lifting body plane.

 

[Scarpozzi]

That's pretty cool. But I wish there were better pictures of the damage.

 

[loic2003]

piece of p!ss... just alter the trim a bit and you're laughing

 

[KillerCharlie]

Originally posted by: MasterAndCommander
Incredible feat of piloting, along with the technology of the fly-by-wire system to keep it from tumbling in the air.
I'm not sure about the F-15, but I'll bet it holds true for the Eagle - when I interviewed for a job an an F-14 repair facility, I was told the acutal fuselage of the Tomcat acts as a lifting body as well.

The F-15 does not have fly-by-wire but just has normal feedback loops. I think fly-by-wire would make it worse.

When you lose a wing, lift is not a problem - you're flying a fighter designed to be loaded with fuel and weapons. The thing you need to worry about is the incredible rolling moment that results. Thankfully, the F-15 has massive horizontal stabs / elevators that assist in roll control.

 

[ForumMaster]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
That's pretty cool. But I wish there were better pictures of the damage.

well here you go
it is true. but half of the credit goes to the awsome computer that managed to keep the plane steady. kudos to the pilot that managed to do it. just shows you something about the IAF.

 

[Nyati13]

Originally posted by: Savij
It's true, and the F15 is definitely a lifting body plane.

I think I read that somewhere around 25% to 30% of the total lift comes from the body section.

 

[spacejamz]

Next thing I did was lower the arresting hook.

do F-15's have arresting hooks? These are for carrier based planes so they can catch the wire...never heard an F-15 operating off a carrier before....

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: spacejamz

Next thing I did was lower the arresting hook.

do F-15's have arresting hooks? These are for carrier based planes so they can catch the wire...never heard an F-15 operating off a carrier before....

It's not for carrier operations, it's mostly an emergency hook.

pic pic2 of hook.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Its true, I've seen this story many times before.

And the fuselage does indeed act as a lifting body - the plane would have crashed otherwise.

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: spacejamz

Next thing I did was lower the arresting hook.

do F-15's have arresting hooks? These are for carrier based planes so they can catch the wire...never heard an F-15 operating off a carrier before....

It's not for carrier operations, it's mostly an emergency hook.

pic pic2 of hook.

thanks...I guess you do learn something new everyday...

 

[kevinthenerd]

1337

 

[otispunkmeyer]

israel..... man those guys know how to fly, crazy motherfuckers.

 

[Drakkon]

I think the credit here needs to go to McDoanld Douglas....sure the pilot did a helluva job but MDD put together a helluva plane. Its an engineering marvell to have a computer that can adapt to something as severe as loss of an entire wing and then the whole body lift fact that made it so the plane could fly is just amazing. Kudos to AMERICAN engineering

 

[MisterJackson]

That's truly "Iceman"......stayed cool under pressure

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
I think the credit here needs to go to McDoanld Douglas....sure the pilot did a helluva job but MDD put together a helluva plane. Its an engineering marvell to have a computer that can adapt to something as severe as loss of an entire wing and then the whole body lift fact that made it so the plane could fly is just amazing. Kudos to AMERICAN engineering

amazing isnt it

i love ****** like this

though MD did tell them that "aerodynamically" the plane was impossible to fly. without the computers though, he woulda crashed probably.

so cool what the computers mean for plane like this, since theyve been used in planes like this, as long as the plane shape generates lift it doesnt matter if its unstable...the computer takes care of that.

without computers, eurofighter would be out of control the second it took flight. designed to be purposefully unstable because the computers can act so fast to correct any alterations, give the machine great manouverability.

i cant wait to graduate so i can end up working on crazy bollox like this

 

[Jawo]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
That's truly "Iceman"......stayed cool under pressure

What an appropiate "Top Gun" Reference!