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Plane lands after losing wing!!

Rebel_JamesRebel_James Member Posts: 4,746
edited November 2008 in General Discussion
I don't know where this happened, but the pilot has a SET, and probably a PILE in his pants!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZiP4NaeYrE
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 14,874 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Holy Crap!

    Any landing you walk away from is a good landing. Talk about knowing your aircraft!
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 38,255 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    Looks like the cockpit is way to small to hold the brass balls that dude's gotta have!!! Great save! If the video isn't doctored that is.
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  • fizzerfizzer Member Posts: 748 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't know. I watched it several times, but the ending look fake. It is tough to tell.
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  • JorgeJorge Member Posts: 10,656
    edited November -1
    "Thrill"

    [:0]

    "These pretzels are making me thirsty!"
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  • FrogdogFrogdog Member Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Y'all have to be kidding, right? That's not even a good fake!
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  • givettegivette Member Posts: 10,886 ✭
    edited November -1
    Wheel struts. Equal compression. No extra weight on the "good" side.

    Snap to normal, perfect landing position at the end much too quick, even considering the "Extra 300" excellent roll-rate. Yes, the acft in the picture is an Extra 300. Weighted side would have continued in the roll, causing wingtip to hit the earth. Roll much to fast for an acft that has lost 1/2 of it's roll (aileron) capability. Engine torque not a factor, 'cause the acft was at full throttle when it started its roll.


    It's a doctored film, folks.
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  • jpwolfjpwolf Member Posts: 9,164
    edited November -1
    Here's a REAL one, from the History channel. F-15

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edANk8Noii0
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  • RockatanskyRockatansky Member Posts: 11,175
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by jpwolf
    Here's a REAL one, from the History channel. F-15

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edANk8Noii0


    real? you're kidding right? i am not saying it hasn't happened, but the video -- c'mon now!
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    SNOPE IT!![:D]
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  • helicopter_pilothelicopter_pilot Member Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of the common aerobatic maneuvers is knife-edge flight. Basically, the fuselage is providing all of the lift. The wings on those aircraft tend to be symmetrical and without dihedral. If you're going to lose a wing, that's a plane to do it in.

    But, day-um! [:0]
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  • jpwolfjpwolf Member Posts: 9,164
    edited November -1
    Rock, did you watch the vid? It was from the History channel. An F-15 has a lifting body type fuselage, so with the wing and the fuselage, enough speed and proper controls and a very good pilot to maintain all these variables, it has lift enough to fly. It's true.
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  • RockatanskyRockatansky Member Posts: 11,175
    edited November -1
    Jpwolf, I did watch the video and there is no footage of that particular aircraft flying with a missing wing. The fact that it was on history channel doesn't mean anything. Once again, I am not saying it didn't happen, I am saying the video is not of the aircraft in that case. I wish it were, it'd be a fascinating to see it.
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  • helicopter_pilothelicopter_pilot Member Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Whoops!

    Looks like it's fake.
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  • LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,143 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That Karen Black can land anything!
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by helicopter_pilot
    Whoops!

    Looks like it's fake.




    Thanks HP, i knew we'd get to the truth ...[;)]
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  • jpwolfjpwolf Member Posts: 9,164
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rockatansky
    Jpwolf, I did watch the video and there is no footage of that particular aircraft flying with a missing wing. The fact that it was on history channel doesn't mean anything. Once again, I am not saying it didn't happen, I am saying the video is not of the aircraft in that case. I wish it were, it'd be a fascinating to see it.


    Oh ok, I get ya.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 34,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am "flying blind" here as I can't watch videos on the dial up.
    But I did hear a description of this video on a radio talk show. He said that the wing came completely off of the airplane.
    I have a lot of airtime in light aircraft, and I do not believe it possible to land a plane with one wing.
    If that wing comes off, hit the silk quick, or die.

    As for F15s, I don't know, that powerful jet plane is too far removed from my experience for me to say.
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  • bhale187bhale187 Member Posts: 7,798
    edited November -1
    all I can say is WOW!
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,402
    edited November -1
    I would certainly hate to try it but I have to wonder if the aircraft couldn't be slipped to a landing? Notice how he straightens out at the end just as you would do when slipping.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932
    edited November -1
    The f-15 is real, but it a re-inactment from the history channel. But the f-15 at the end of the video is the actual plane.
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  • redhead71redhead71 Member Posts: 2,337 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Possible?? if the engine has enough thrust to over come the weight displacement it is possible not wanting to try it either
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  • edharoldedharold Member Posts: 465 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    IMHO it's not possible, he might land it but could never get it lined up at the runway with one aileron and the rudder.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 13,200 ✭
    edited November -1
    I don't know how he broke the spin with one wing missing. Getting into a knife edge and holding it up with rudder and engine then applying max power to raise the nose almost vertically and lowering it to the ground by gradual power reduction took real skill.
    Rolling it 90 degrees against the lift of the remaining wing is hard to believe. And then there's the question of fuel and fuel pressure.
    Why didn't he leave the airplane when he had altitude and the wing came off??
    Did he really think he could land that airplane?
    If it's true, it's incredible.
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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    Seems to me like that hard a landing would crush the landing gear.

    But these small homebuilt micro-planes or whatever they're called, they're grossly overpowered - in most of them, you can actually "hover" by flying straight up and adjust the throttle - and make much of what he did is possible because the plane is so light and the wings/*/propeller/engine are oversize compared to what's needed for such a light craft.


    But I believe the landing was "doctored" in some way - he makes an almost perfect adjustment to level out with the landing-strip, right before he lands. And it is wicked fast...


    I don't know about the landing - but from what I know about the light crafts, they can do amazing things to begin with.
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