Do any of you know?
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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the diffrence the US build sexy good aircraft that can kick ass , Us Brits used to have that know how, instead we build outdated pish like the typhoon thats on even par with 20 year old soviet and american equivelents.
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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.
The stude subsequenly got demoted for dissobeying a direct order but then promoted back up for saving the a/c.
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The F15 is 35 years old.