To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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.
3 posted on
02/03/2004 12:28:32 PM PST by
OXENinFLA
To: OXENinFLA; Poohbah; section9; veronica
McDonnell-Douglas didn't believe it... until the photos arrived.
11 posted on
02/03/2004 1:28:24 PM PST by
hchutch
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