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DON'T THREATEN OUR PLANES (Centurii-chan) (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The F-15 is the only plane to have safely landed, not a controlled crash but actually returned to a runway and landed, after losing a wing.

Edit to add link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

wing??

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"the F-15 landed at twice the normal speed to maintain the necessary lift, and its tailhook was torn off completely during the landing."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like this part even better:

He added, "Only when McDonnell Douglas later went to analyze it, they said, OK, the F-15 has a very wide [lifting] body; you fly fast enough and you're like a rocket. You don't need wings."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But the pilots quote was best of all

"it's highly likely that if I had seen it clearly I would have ejected, because it was obvious you couldn't really fly an airplane like that."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

because it was obvious you couldn’t really fly an airplane like that.

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