Do any of you know?

[Diedtrying]

What the story behind this is?


http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b377/yeebsy/Radome/missingwing.jpg

[Green Flash]

There is a thread in PPrune somewhere on this subject.

[Tiger_mate]

It is an Israeli Defence Force F15 that lost a mainplane or rather half in air 2 air with another F15, yet remained flyable and recovered as shown.

[Diedtrying]

I wasn't sure if it was photo shopped or not, just looks like it should fall like a brick. Cheers for the reply.

[The Flying Pram]

Link to YouTube video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1aKxAN7bAs)

[Diedtrying]

Wow, thanks for that link. Unbelievable, lucky crew.

[Magnersdrinker]

Yeah i mind seeing on discovery about an F15 that lost a wing somewhere , and made it back to base , the body of the aircraft actually provides the lift for it to be able to stay aloft , a hell of a lot of rudder I guess but god blessed the F15 with 2 .thats the diffrence the US build sexy good aircraft that can kick ass , Us Brits used to have that know how, instead we build outdated pish like the typhoon thats on even par with 20 year old soviet and american equivelents.

[Fareastdriver]

The F15 is 35 years old.

[Magnersdrinker]

FareastdriverThe F15 is 35 years old.

there is always one !!!

[jindabyne]

That'll be you then ----:ugh:

[cooheed]

It was discussed last year

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=209052

[struggle]

I believe that it was a training sortie. The rear seat instructor instructed the stude to bang out, but handling seemed fine, they couldnt see the missing wing as fuel was pouring out, so the stude kept on flying it and recovered successfully.

The stude subsequenly got demoted for dissobeying a direct order but then promoted back up for saving the a/c.

[Colonal Mustard]

Apparently the pilot was reprimanded due to an earlier mishap and told he was going to have his wings "clipped", the engineers misread the instructions and did it as tasked... :E

[Chicken Leg]

The F15 is 35 years old.

I believe the F15 came into service in 1987. Not sure that makes it 35 years old unless of course we're taking into account concept, design, build etc. but if that is the case, how old does that make the Typhoon.........15 years?

[gareth herts]

F-15A and B came in to service in 1974 I think. The F-15E might have entered service in 1987.

[Chicken Leg]

I stand corrected! Wickipedia says it came into service in 1977.

[Gainesy]

The other aircraft involved was an A-4 which didn't so much fly as plummet.

[Bob Viking]

15 years from inception?!
Well, Sharkey Ward mentioned it in his Falklands book so I guess that makes it at least 25 years old!
BV;)