Movie Monday - August 31 - On (one) wing and a prayer

Thats just carazy! Wouldn't thought it was possible - at all. I wonder how the F22 would fare in the same situasion?

Was the other pilot ok... did he magage to bail out?

Regards
Giom

Giom, why would the pilot bail out after landing? I'd think that would be unnecessary.

Being a pilot is a dangerous job. On the top 10 list by Forbes.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/26/america-deadliest-jobs-leadership-fatalities_slide_9.html

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I think it's high time this myth was busted.

The only lift on the right side of the aircraft without its right wing would be the right elevon. The left elevon would have to be working at max. negative excursion to counter the right elevon's lift at the tail, and to keep the nose up. The wing ailerons on F-15s are pretty smally. So-called "body lift" is minimal, and if any significant angle of attack was employed, the left wing would immediately roll the aircraft to the right. Without AOA, there is no lift...

This has been a huge con job for the best part of 30 years... IC

Impossible vid (and old..2006).
How can you answer these questions:
-You loose a wing so you loose fuel tank, hydraulic and neumatic systems...how can you move control surfaces?
-You have lost a wing tank so you have a big fuel leakage...with no atmosferic evidences (no fire, no condensation)...Moreover, you use afterburner...How?
-How can you land with normal landing speed x 2 without run out? And you don't loose the airbrake...
-Ok, we can imagine enough fuselage lift at high speed but how can you avoid rolling moment without control surfaces?
-You loose control surfaces and the pilot has not notice at cabin...¿?¿

One possible solution: F-15 loose a wing at land (colission with other ac or air base truck), History Channel adds other F-15 vids and you get a fake...

I Charvat. This is very possible. In Sweden a Saab J-35 Dragon did a very similar landing many years ago with one wing missing after a mid-air collission. The body and air-intakes on a Dragon also produces a lot of lift similar to the F-15.

Actually on a modern jet-engine fighter the wings in the self do not produce lift in the classic aerydynamical way (negative pressure due to higher speed of airflow). Look how the wing is designed compared to a civilian sub-sonic aircraft. On a super-sonic aircraft there is no difference between up- and downside. Instead the lift is produced by a vortex. The elevons change the direction of the vortex bubble and also add extra effect to the vortex.

On a F15 the body and air intakes produces a lot of lift through bog vortexes. Also the F-15 har big fins which has a secondary effect to produce a roll manouvre when applying rudder through the roll-yaw connection. The big engine of the F-15 is what saved the situation. Applying a lot of elevon and rudder to prevent the aircraft from rolling produces a lot of drag which in turn is countered by adding thrust. The aircraft will be difficult to fly straight, but very fly-able when flying slightly tilted towrds the damaged wing. The landing of course is a bit tricky! :-)

When a wing is cut-off on modern aircraft the hydraulic system automatically shut off to prevent leaks. Also there is always two systems. The fuel in the tank that was affected is of course lost, but there is no connection between the tanks so the fuel flow will not go from one tank to another except to a main tank in the body from where the engine get the fuel. Therefore the engine will always get fuel from the tanks in the body and the other wing.

Mother Moo, thank you for dropping in with some aerodynamic sanity. Few people I have spoken with are even aware of vortex lift. Then again, it was only recently in reading about symmetrical airfoils that I found the pressure differential model is more of a conceptual aid than scientific explanation.

Knowingly or not, by approaching the runway so fast, the pilot avoided stalling the aircraft.