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An Israeli F-15 landed without a wing (2020)

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Re: An Israeli F-15 landed without a wing (2020)

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Post by jskrablin »

stavros wrote: post #14
alexvoda wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They treated the plane like a rocket. Maybe the F-15 can land vertically too.

Isn't that what these planes basically are? They aren't very aerodynamic so they can maneuver quickly, so they need tons of thrust to stay aloft. I heard one described as "a brick with a jet engine strapped to it".

That is usually referring to F-4 Phantom.

F-15 is using something called a lifting body design in which fuselage itself produces lift. That's what save this one. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_body

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Post by rawoke083600 »

The F15 is in the most optimized solution in tradeoffs in fighter jets.

If you take into account the time to market, cost of development, fighting record it's the the unicorn-sweetspot :)

a Very under rated(I couldn't bring myself to say under the radar, Im not that type of person) plane !

Re: An Israeli F-15 landed without a wing (2020)

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Post by rawoke083600 »

sccxy wrote: post #18
olliej wrote: post #4

What's so hard about this? It's sounds like they only had half as much plane to land, so it was probably even easier than usual. Onwards to management! :D

As you can see planes can fly with one wing. Maybe we can cut down some costs and only use one wing in the future?

MBA Grad :)

Re: An Israeli F-15 landed without a wing (2020)

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Post by _jack_cox »

amelius wrote: post #22

So the pilot seriously risked their life to save the government a few million $.

Ejecting is very risky for the pilot. Many pilots are seriously injured in the process (1 in 3 chance of spinal injury https://www.smh.com.au/education/how-dangerous-is-it-to-ejec...). Ejection is the option of last resort; I'm guessing the pilot felt that he wasn't quite that desperate yet.

Re: An Israeli F-15 landed without a wing (2020)

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Post by lkrubner »

How in the world is this possible:

"In a testament to just how incredibly tough these aircraft really are, the damaged F-15 was transported to a maintenance facility in Tel Nof, where it was given a new wing and returned to service."

Am I reading this correctly? Events were something like: So you rip a wing off a plane in a mid-air collision but you can safely assume that it did not suffer fundamental structural damage, so you can just stick a wing back on it and it is good to go?

Re: An Israeli F-15 landed without a wing (2020)

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Post by dogma1138 »

lkrubner wrote: post #29

How in the world is this possible: "In a testament to just how incredibly tough these aircraft really are, the damaged F-15 was transported to a maintenance facility in Tel Nof, where it was given a new wing and returned to service." Am I reading this correctly? Events were something like: So you rip a wing off a plane in a mid-air collision but you can safely assume that it did not suffer fundamental structural dama…

Yes, aircraft are designed to be transportable and repairable so the wings and other control surfaces are easily removable.

The wings on an F-16 for example are secured by two bolts all you need is to disconnect the avionics remove the bolts and the wing comes off.

You can replace a wing on an F-16 within under half an hour without skipping any steps it is like changing tires on a car.

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