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DON'T THREATEN OUR PLANES (Centurii-chan) (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 23 points 14 hours ago

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] 4 points 3 hours ago

A

wing??

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 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."

[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago

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."

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