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DON'T THREATEN OUR PLANES (Centurii-chan) (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month 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] 15 points 1 month 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] 21 points 1 month 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] 6 points 1 month 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] 3 points 1 month ago

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

Looney Tunes "Don't look down" level achievement

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

A

wing??