One-winged F-15, flying and landing after midair collision

theo47says...

Not downvoting it, but I just can't get jazzed about multi-million dollar military hardware. People are poor, our schools suck, etc. etc.
Sorry, no offense.

Plantsays...

Theo...Hardware like that kept you out of Hitler Youth High School, big boy...Catch a freakin' grip before I come over there and smack you!! As for the F-15, it is true that the wide fuselage helped, but the differential horizontal stabilizers really brought her home. I flew the F-15A from 1986-1992. Great jet...hit 5 seagulls at 500 knots, she brought me home no-sweat! (The whole plane smelled like fish, though.)

Plantsays...

Yeah, Deathcow. In addition to being a conventional "elevator", you can use them like ailerons. In training, the instructor grabs the lower control stick, in effect, jamming it, and you fly home using the transducer on the top of the stick--which only operates the [diff]stab. Very cool system...you can take lots of battle damage, loose your traditional flight controls and [maybe] make it back. Cheers!

DCCsays...

are you talking about flying while just adjusting your trim? and they are not elevators... they are called horizantal stabilators, since they act as the stabilizers and elevators

Devlinsays...

My father helped design the F-15, and has multiple records of Israeli F-15's losing a wing and making home, including one from the Osirik reactor bombing. While it's cool and everything, I only have one question: WHY IS IT ONLY THE ISRAELI AIRFORCE THAT LOSES THE WINGS FROM F-15S????? Otherwise, I'm not suprised, and glad the pilot and RIO are okay.

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