Could you have landed this??

[XH558]

[URL]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b5a79a516c[/URL]

That is just astounding :eek: I like the comment that if he'd seen it he would have ejected - but because he couldn't see it he just kept going :p

[robgt]

Link not working for me :(
(Could be DNS issues for me though?)

Cheers,
Rob

[gazza]

Works for me:)

Tremendous.

[Biggles]

wish my heli would fly with one blade......It would save me a fortune!!!!:D :D

[robgt]

Working now :)

Cheers,
Rob

[Steve]

IMO - completely fake digitally edited video footage.

I've seen footage of a large petrol RC plane fly and land after one wing simply came off in flight - the chap just flew it around on knife edge and then landed it by flipping it down onto the runway.

But a F15 - no way. it would never stay horizontal like that, and if you notice the images of it flying with one wing are very short, and clearly edited to make the wing look like it's not there.

[Kwickkwack]

Have seen about this before, but not in video, I understand it is genuine, but i dont think that the video is the actual flight.

[Biggles]

Your right the video is not of the actual flight but.....[url]http://www.uss-bennington.org/phz-nowing-f15.html[/url]

There you have it........or is it just another one for conspiracy theorists???????

[Nutz]

When I was around 10 years old I got a book about the Eagle (which I still own) and there was the story about an Israeli pilot landing the F-15 on one wing after a mid air, the book is very interesting and there is an article about the F-15 which was stripped of every luxury including it's paintwork for beating the altitude record back in 1975 it achieved 98,452ft. The F-15 could also could out climb the Apollo Moon rocket to 60,000ft.

The F-15 is still a remarkable aircraft.

The book I have was published in 1985 so the accident happened before then, McDonald Douglas at first denied the report, but the writer put the story in the book as an unconfirmed but form a genuine source along with a picture of the jet.

[Sesame]

Incredible story.

ive landed a model without an elevator, knifeedged it in then dumped it down, but without a wing blimey :eek:

[XH558]

[quote=The Manager;46916]IMO - completely fake digitally edited video footage.

But a F15 - no way. it would never stay horizontal like that, and if you notice the images of it flying with one wing are very short, and clearly edited to make the wing look like it's not there.[/quote]

A liitle harsh I think :rolleyes: Whether the video was faked or not for effect it is quite clear the wing [B]was[/B] torn off and the story of the pilot in the film and the official report later on in this thread confirm it all as related by the pilot. We know it wasn't filmed as it happened - it was probably just a reconstruction - but the man had guts and great skill anyway.:D

And as for it being possible just look at a Lockheed F104 Starfighter - that has virtually no wings on [U][B]both[/B][/U] sides and relies on fuselage lift to a great degree :p so it has to be possible - it happened:)

[Steve]

Here you go - RC Plane

[url]http://media.putfile.com/Wing-Failure[/url]

[Biggles]

what was the pilots name???? Wanwing Lo???

[Steve]

[QUOTE=Biggles;47005]what was the pilots name???? Wanwing Lo???[/QUOTE]

Very good.

More likely to be Todd, or Bud!

:D

[Ade_Law]

it seems that the pilot used the fuz lift to "fly" therefore not using the remaining wing for lift.

do you think there was "a bit" of elevator/roll coupling? <g>

Ade