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Plane Flies For Two Hours With [half] Wing Missing (with pic)
Western Daily Press [Ireland] ^
| 8/19/2005
| unknown
Posted on 08/19/2005 2:36:22 PM PDT by sionnsar
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To: SAMWolf
She landed this one without any hydralics...
61
posted on
08/19/2005 4:00:31 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Be vewwy vewwy qwiet, we're hunting wahabbits...)
To: sionnsar
He didn't notice it was handling a little funny?
62
posted on
08/19/2005 4:01:27 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: Bogey78O
No one looked out the window? You would have to look out and up. Most people look out and down. And I'm normally white-knuckled with my eyes squeezed shut.
To: sionnsar
Your post id misleading...
Does not look like quite half. Looks like about an 1/8th...
64
posted on
08/19/2005 4:07:27 PM PDT
by
sit-rep
(If you acquire, hit it again just to make sure...)
To: sionnsar
As long as you have lift you got it made.
Looks like a Cessna............good plane! I flew one before I lost my license to high blood pressure.
65
posted on
08/19/2005 4:07:50 PM PDT
by
timydnuc
(I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees.)
To: dighton
There was a little man on the wing tearing into the engine...
66
posted on
08/19/2005 4:09:41 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Got Au? Ag?)
To: sionnsar
Wings... You need those!...
67
posted on
08/19/2005 4:11:13 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Got Au? Ag?)
To: Dan(9698)
Okay, I guess we're just not connecting. I am suggesting the trim tab will not be able to provide enough force to overcome the excess drag/assymetric lift favoring the left hand side. The tab can only move so much before you have to start giving rudder input.
Plus, my original comment was kind of tongue in cheek.
68
posted on
08/19/2005 4:13:43 PM PDT
by
hattend
(Alaska....in a time warp all it's own!)
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
When I was in civilian flight training they taught us how to fly the aircraft "by the tail". It's scary but it works like a charm. A good pilot can take his aircraft in with a lot more damage than this.
69
posted on
08/19/2005 4:14:01 PM PDT
by
timydnuc
(I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees.)
To: Arthalion
That test pilot was Tex Johnson.
70
posted on
08/19/2005 4:17:48 PM PDT
by
cynicom
To: SunnySide
It seems to me that everytime I read about some horrendous or really stupid car accident, the local paper ends the story with the laconic "alcohol may have been involved". I thought it very appropriate here
71
posted on
08/19/2005 4:24:12 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: Chode
It's a CG image of a Boeing (formerly McD) "Blended Wing Body" transport. Do a search on BWB, you'll find a lot.
I believe this particular image was done for a magazine... pop Sci or Sci Am or some such.
72
posted on
08/19/2005 4:26:58 PM PDT
by
orionblamblam
("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
To: sionnsar
Alcohol may have been a factor.
73
posted on
08/19/2005 4:29:42 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: dighton
Loose cowling cover a top-flight mechanic didn't close
74
posted on
08/19/2005 4:31:32 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: hattend
I am suggesting the trim tab will not be able to provide enough force to overcome the excess drag/assymetric lift favoring the left hand side. The tab can only move so much before you have to start giving rudder input. The trim on a C210 has a lot of range. It requires a lot of right rudder to overcome the P factor when you start the takeoff roll.
It has a takeoff power of 310 HP and that causes a lot of left turn tendancy. It is not like a 152, a 172 or other lower powered aircraft.
Transitioning from a 172 to a 210 was almost like learning to fly again.
To: timydnuc
"A good pilot can take his aircraft in with a lot more damage than this" Yes he can. That is well documented above.
The point I think is that neither he nor his esteemed colleag's noticed
I Thought I hit a bird?
Sorry but thats pretty lame.
BTW I was always admonished for rudder flying.
"you like flying sideways doncha jack?" LOL
To: Dr._Joseph_Warren
big deal... everyone knows an F-15 doesn't actually NEED wings to fly as long as the two engines are working...
77
posted on
08/19/2005 4:47:40 PM PDT
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: pandemoniumreigns
BTW I was always admonished for rudder flying. I used to fly with rudder only a lot of the time. If the aelorons were trimmed, it required very light rudder to keep the wings level and it left both hands free to unfold maps, work the circular slide rule and other things that took two hands.
It also made it so that you instinctively used rudder along with the wheel when flying with your left hand.
To: sionnsar
amazing what a few beers will do......
79
posted on
08/19/2005 4:50:53 PM PDT
by
thinking
To: orionblamblam
80
posted on
08/19/2005 4:54:19 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
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