F-15 One Wing Landing

[StanAE86]

Amazing:

Pilot lands F-15 with only one wing - YouTube

[TopGearNL]

Never :shock:

WOW

[novass]

Thats amazing that he landed that :shock: Ill bet he had to change his pants after :lol:

What happened to the other plane he collided with? Did I miss what they said?

[StanAE86]

He said it blew up into a fireball after the collision...

[ZfrkS62]

wow...you lose a wing and go into a roll...his navigator must have been JC and he must have been screaming "Power out of it!!" :lol:

[frodefe]

:shock:

[Mattk]

Wow! :shock: That's a pretty amazing story, if not a remarkably well-made video.

[Schwalbe]

Simply amazing ! :shock:

[acmarttin]

That's incredible piloting. Before seeing this video I thought that flying on one wing was just simply aerodynamically impossible.

[pzgren]

it's hard to believe that but the pictures says it all....

[Erez]

:shock: holy shit.. never saw it before! amazing! :shock:

[a007apl]

:shock:

[gobs3z]

I actually think a lot of the planes survival had to o with fly-by-wire. When the
F-117 was testing, a tail fin flew off without the pilot ever realizing it happened, and that's a plane that theoretically should not fly.

[spanky]

Damn :shock: :shock:

[e46drew]

thankyou, fly-by-wire :shock: :o :D

[sentra_dude]

I saw this story posted on the bulletin board at our local airport, simply astounding! The F-15 doesn't use fly-by-wire, the first fighter to use that was the F-16 in 1979. This comes down to pure power. When lightly loaded the F-15 has a power to weight ratio better than 1:1.

[pilone]

These are skills! 8)

[komotar]

amazing :shock:

anyody has any idea, where I could get hold of the whole documentary?

[sentra_dude]

amazing :shock:

anyody has any idea, where I could get hold of the whole documentary?

Not sure if you get the History Channel komotar, but;

http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&showId=173102

8)
"Built to put U.S. pilots back in charge of the skies, the F-15 Eagle proved its superiority in Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. In a dogfight, it can maneuver against the toughest fighters and climb to Mt. Everest's height in 60 seconds. One of the toughest planes in the world, one fortunate F-15 pilot flew back to base after losing a wing! Featuring interviews with Operation Iraqi Freedom pilots and footage that puts the viewer right in the cockpit of the world's greatest fighter aircraft."

Saturday, November 25
09:00 AM

I'm sure your schedule is totally different as well, but it looks like they will be showing it soon, so maybe you can catch it on TV.

[Max Power]

pretty awesome story, but I wish it was longer as I want more about that Mig 25!!

the pilot defected to Japan but later was killed by KGB agents for it...

[RAMMIUS]

Max, where did you get that informantion about Belenko ? :?

AFAIK he got political asylum in the USA , and he was/is fine.

[Max Power]

I could have made it up AFAIK

[gobs3z]

I saw this story posted on the bulletin board at our local airport, simply astounding! The F-15 doesn't use fly-by-wire, the first fighter to use that was the F-16 in 1979. This comes down to pure power. When lightly loaded the F-15 has a power to weight ratio better than 1:1.

The F-16 was the first plane to rely only on fly-by-wire. All F-15's have electronic flight controls (i.e. can operate without mechanicals), but they all also retain their mechanical flight controls. All E-variants have digital flight control systems, but again retain mechanical. When the E's were first designed in the early 80's, there was still a requirement for EMP (electromagnetic pulse) resistance. So when a nuclear bomb goes off and all the fly-by-wire only aircraft fall out of the sky, all the F-15's will still be flying.

[komotar]

amazing :shock:

anyody has any idea, where I could get hold of the whole documentary?

Not sure if you get the History Channel komotar, but;

http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&showId=173102

8)
"Built to put U.S. pilots back in charge of the skies, the F-15 Eagle proved its superiority in Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. In a dogfight, it can maneuver against the toughest fighters and climb to Mt. Everest's height in 60 seconds. One of the toughest planes in the world, one fortunate F-15 pilot flew back to base after losing a wing! Featuring interviews with Operation Iraqi Freedom pilots and footage that puts the viewer right in the cockpit of the world's greatest fighter aircraft."

Saturday, November 25
09:00 AM

I'm sure your schedule is totally different as well, but it looks like they will be showing it soon, so maybe you can catch it on TV.

dude thanks for the heads-up 8) I don't have that channel, but a few of my friends do, so I'll try to check it out. If that doesn't work out, I'll try finding it somewhere on the net.

Thx, I appretiate the effort 8)

[Skaala]

I actually think a lot of the planes survival had to o with fly-by-wire. When the
F-117 was testing, a tail fin flew off without the pilot ever realizing it happened, and that's a plane that theoretically should not fly.

that is a pretty amazing clip, but it had never been possible without fly-by-wire as gobs3z sai. All new fighterplanes rely on computers to do the correction of rudders and ailerons while flying. All new fighteplanes have a aerodynamiclly unstable design. The befefits are better stealth, manouverability, strength and others, but not aerodynamics for flying. If the fly-by-wire system were to fail, and leave the pilot with all the controls they would have to eject. In my time at the NATO Headquarter in Stavanger, I spent a lot of time in the F-16A hangar, and even though the F-16 looks aerodynamic, it isn't. It's very smooth and cool looking, but not aerodynamicly designed for flying without fly-by-wire