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Ogg

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/umm this is the captain, kiss your ass goodbye
 
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Originally posted by: Tiamat
OMG, that plane could fly in that condition!?
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You would be surprised at how much damage a plane can sustain and still fly. Landing in some cases is a whole other story though.
 
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Shockwave

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Originally posted by: Linflas
Originally posted by: Tiamat
OMG, that plane could fly in that condition!?
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You would be surprised at how much damage a plane can sustain and still fly. Landing in some cases is a whole other story though.
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Absolutely. Planes are actually very resilient. Of course, I'd still need copious amounts of vodka to continue on that flight and not just piss myself.
 
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Yanagi

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Hehe, a jet that landed with only one wing, why shouldnt that plane land with that enginge fubared? :cookie:
 
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A friend of mine that's a pilot always tells me, "planes don't just fall out of the sky ya know!"

There's just too much lift generated by the wings....a little damage to one of the engines won't cause it to crash...just makes the pilots want to land quicker. ;)
 
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Shockwave

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Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
A friend of mine that's a pilot always tells me, "planes don't just fall out of the sky ya know!"

There's just too much lift generated by the wings....a little damage to one of the engines won't cause it to crash...just makes the pilots want to land quicker. ;)
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Passenger jets do just "fall out of the sky". They simply dont have enough lift in the wings to carry that kind of weight without alot of forward pull.
 
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OulOat

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Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
One wing? I very much doubt it.
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The most outstanding Eagle save was by a pilot from a foreign air force. During air combat training his two seater F-15 was involved in a mid-air collision with an A-4 Skyhawk. The A-4 crashed, and the Eagle lost its right wing from about 2ft. outboard. After some confusion between the instructor who said eject, and the student who outranked his instructor and said no, the F-15 was landed at its desert base. Touching down at 290 kt, the hook was dropped for an approach and engagement. This slowed the F-15 to 100 kt, when the hook weak link sheared, and the aircraft was then braked conventionally.
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F15 Wingless Landing

The A-10 is rudimentary for a lot of good reasons. A weapon is only of value if it can survive the battlefield and be easily maintained. It has been said that a .22 bullet can bring down most jets because of their complexity and the density of their systems. Not so the A-10. Its systems are few, extremely simple and widely spaced; they also have mechanical backups. Its engines and pilot are wrapped in titanium armor and, from the drawing board, it was designed to come home with half of one wing missing.
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A-10 Warthog
 
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Back in the dark ages when I was in the Navy onboard the USS Independence I was taking a smoke break in flight deck control before my squadrons planes returned for turn around. While I was standing there the door open and a guy came in carrying what looked to be 4-5 feet of wing from an F-4. It turned out that the pilot hit the round down (back edge of the flight deck) when trying to land and lost the left main landing gear and this piece of wing which was pretty much the entire section from where the wing folds out.

The plane was still flying so they had us rig the barricade (net across the flight deck) and the pilot then attempted to land the plane. Unfortunately he came in very fast and went right through the barricade and off the side of the ship. People on the flight deck reported seeing the ejection flashes but we never did find the pilot and radar officer.:(
 
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911paramedic

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It looks like that cowling opened up in flight and got ripped off, bending that support structure at the top. The funny thing is the cowling facing the window looks like it was cut off with a cutting torch by the marks on it's edge. I have to imagine somebody cut the damaged part off at one airport, after it happened in flight, and then they flew to another location with it after concluding it was safe for flight.

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TTM77

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Originally posted by: Shockwave
Originally posted by: Linflas
Originally posted by: Tiamat
OMG, that plane could fly in that condition!?
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You would be surprised at how much damage a plane can sustain and still fly. Landing in some cases is a whole other story though.
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Absolutely. Planes are actually very resilient. Of course, I'd still need copious amounts of vodka to continue on that flight and not just piss myself.
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It's call flying with style (strait down).
 
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TTM77

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Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
A friend of mine that's a pilot always tells me, "planes don't just fall out of the sky ya know!"

There's just too much lift generated by the wings....a little damage to one of the engines won't cause it to crash...just makes the pilots want to land quicker. ;)
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Good one. hahaha
 
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