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Old 27th Nov 2011, 23:59
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stepwilk
 
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Tu-154 lost 2.5m of right wing during take off, made go around and landed safely at the airport.
I wasn't talking about an airplane that lost 2.5 meters of wing, I was responding to the ludicrous claim that airplanes have "lost an entire wing and landed safely." As I said, only one that I know of (an F-15), and it had a conformal blended-wing shape that created substantial lift even with what was generally considered to be "the wing" gone. Nothing like a Tu-154.

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