@PugJesusM to A sub for HistorymemesEnglish • 19 hours agoDON'T THREATEN OUR PLANES (Centurii-chan)imagemessage-square7arrow-up1121arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarecan_you_change_your_usernamelinkfedilink25•16 hours agoThe 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
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•12 hours ago“the F-15 landed at twice the normal speed to maintain the necessary lift, and its tailhook was torn off completely during the landing.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish16•12 hours agoI 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.”
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
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“the F-15 landed at twice the normal speed to maintain the necessary lift, and its tailhook was torn off completely during the landing.”
I like this part even better: