@PugJesusM to A Comm for HistorymemesEnglish • 2 months agoDON'T THREATEN OUR PLANES (Centurii-chan)imagemessage-square12arrow-up1159arrow-down110cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarecan_you_change_your_usernamelinkfedilink31•2 months 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]linkfedilinkEnglish15•2 months 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]linkfedilinkEnglish21•2 months 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.”
minus-square@AA5BlinkEnglish6•2 months agoBut 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.”
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish3•2 months ago because it was obvious you couldn’t really fly an airplane like that. Looney Tunes “Don’t look down” level achievement
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
“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:
But the pilots quote was best of all
Looney Tunes “Don’t look down” level achievement
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