Can you land a plane with one wing?

[Matt400]

Sounds aerodynamically impossible. .

I was blown away at this video of an F-15 that lands with one wing and wanted to share, check it out-



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[daytripper63]

Thats wild

 

[sdstriper]

Very cool. When I saw the Thread topic from the Roundtable and before I clicked on the Thread I thought to myself, sure you can, what's your definition of "landing". What goes up, must come down!

 

[PC12Driver]

If I remeber correctly, 70-80% of the Eagle's lift comes from the fuselage (body). The wings are pretty much just there for roll control and somewhere to hang ordinance.



Of course, if you take off with two it's always nice to land with two.

 

[MEby]

WOW. Thats impressive!!

 

[TowPro]

First all I got was "server busy". now I get a page that says its being upgraded, and ask for a user ID and password

Never mind, it started working again.

 

[Cummins Pilot]

WOW! My pilot & A&P licenses say that can't/shouldn't happen.

 

[jwilliams3]

Like he said "like a rocket"... . goes both ways. If that F15 loses power it doesnt glide it drops like a rock out of the sky.

 

[Cummins Pilot]

Like he said "like a rocket"... . goes both ways. If that F15 loses power it doesnt glide it drops like a rock out of the sky.

Saw a video of an F-16 dead stick in to some GA strip. He came down fast. Aspect ratio suffers in trade for performance.

 

[PC12Driver]

Saw a video of an F-16 dead stick in to some GA strip. He came down fast. Aspect ratio suffers in trade for performance.

This one?

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