[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Scary, I'm glad they're OK.

[OXENinFLA]

Wow!

Can't the F-14 fly with only one wing?

[OXENinFLA]

Sorry, that was the F-15.

One-winged landing

In the summer of 1983, an Israeli F-15 staged a mock dogfight with Skyhawks for training purposes, near Nahal Tzin in the Negev desert. During the exercise, one of the Skyhawks miscalculated and collided forcefully with the F-15's wing root. The F-15's pilot was aware that the wing had been seriously damaged, but decided to try and land in a nearby airbase. It was only after he had landed, when he climbed out of the cockpit and looked backward, that the pilot realized what had happened: the wing had been completely torn off the plane, and he had landed the plane with only one wing attached.

A few months later, the damaged F-15 had been given a new wing, and returned to operational duty in the squadron. The engineers at McDonnell Douglas had a hard time believing the story of the one-winged landing: as far as their planning models were concerned, this was an impossibility.

[OXENinFLA]

[Gefreiter]

Any Navy vets care to comment on the frequency/infrequency of such accidents?

I remember the Army would lose people on occasion in the field to all sorts of accidents. Not often, but it happened. Never made the news though.

[grobdriver]

"OK - We're gonna go left, right?"

[Steely Tom]

Uhhh... A little close there, guys, huh?

(steely)

[Blue Screen of Death]

Well, if these things don't have turn signals, I would be glad to manufacture some to milspec and sell them to the Navy for a mere $24,832.87 each.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

MANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) -- Two F-14A Tomcats operating from USS Enterprise (CVN 65) in the Red Sea collided with each other while conducting basic daytime fighter maneuvers Feb. 2.

No one was injured during the incident, and both aircraft landed safely aboard Enterprise.

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[Yo-Yo]

One F-14 sustained minor damage to its right wingtip, and the other’s right vertical stabilizer had nearly been sheared off.

Hmmm, right wingtip of one aircraft, and right vertical stabilizer on the other aircraft. Either they were going head to head, or one of them was trying to reproduce that scene from "Top Gun."

[csvset]

Have you seen this? An oldie but a goodie.

Lt. Keith Gallagher's Story
Surviving Partial Ejection from A-6 Aircraft

[Severa]

I'll have to watch the local news (We live close enough to NAS Oceana that it's an air show every day over our house) and see what they have to say about what happened.

[serurier]

NAVY need F-18E/F And F-35 .

[bjcintennessee]

This is my sons ship! He emailed me the following today:

GUESS WHAT , EVERY MORNING THEY PRACTICE THEIR AIR SHOW FOR THE TIGER CRUISE ,, IT'S AWSOME ,, NOT A WHOLE LOT OF ACROBATICS ,ESPECIALLY AFTER YESTERDAYS MID-AIR COLLISION ,, TWO F-14'S WHERE FLYING AND ONE GOT INTO ANOTHER AND HIT HIS REAR VERTICAL STABILIZER RIPPING IT COMPLETLY OFF AND DAMAGED THE OTHER ONES WING PRETTY BAD , THEY BOTH WERE ABLE TO MAKE A LANDING BUT IT WAS AWSOME . AS FOR THE SHOW , IT IS MORE LIKE A DEMONSTRTION. THEY ARE GOING TO DO A ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,. I DON'T WANT TO RUIN IT ,,YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT.

The Tiger Cruise he referred to is where my husband and I get to spend 3 days on board the Enterprise while it makes its way back to Norfolk.

As for Yo-Yo's question about frequent accidents -- there have only been two within the last 6 months that my son wrote me about. One involved a wheel that snapped off during a landing and flew across the deck, hit a rescue truck, and seriously bruised a crewman's ankle. The other was when one of the crew backed a rescue truck off the deck -- he jumped out just before it fell into the ocean.

[bjcintennessee]

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[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]