Nick Tselepides 1 Posted November 9, 2003 Some guy at another forum thought the F-15 was the'great' a/c that was able to fly with wing severed off. Nothing is furthest from the truth, as there have been countless incidents of planes flying with wings shot off from 1920 onwards. However, ignorance is universal, unfortunately, and that was his case. Please read: An indent with recent a/c was when an F/A-18 and an F-14 collided in midair in 1994, due to failure of the pilots to spot each other. It was two sections of Navy a/c ( 4 in all). One converging at a rate 660 knots,one F-14 tried to maneuver up and to the right but the oncoming F/A-18 leader's aircraft slammed into the Tomcat. At impact the Hornet's nose was a little high, wings in a slight left angle of banK. The impact severed two-thirds of the F-14's right wing and the Hornet lost five feet of the starboard wing. In order to maintain flight, the F-14 flew at full afterburner on the right engine, idle on the left, with full left stick and partial left rudder inputs. The Tomcat headed for the nearest field but on final, 17 minutes later, both engines quit due to fuel starvation from the leaking wing. The pilot and RIO ejected, landed in the sea and were rescued uninjured. The Hornet proceeded to the same airfield, landed and began hydroplaning. With no arresting cable in sight, the pilot executed a go-around. On the next try, he noted an arresting cable at the threshold of the runway, landed and engaged the cable, which separated immediately without slowing down the F/A-18. The F/A-18 went round again and landed at the far end at 203 knots, engaging the overrun cable at 90 knots and coming to rest three feet from the end of the runway. The 4 Navy aircraft were in European airspace and had had to deal with foreign accents from the local controllers who wanred them of imminent collision in precautionary transmissions, though the F-14 in the lead had not heard anything. Then they failed to keep their heads and eyes on the swivel. They had bothlaunched from the same carrier in the Med on training missions and the miad-air happened at 26 miles from the ship. It was a close call for all involved. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nesher 628 Posted November 10, 2003 something similar happened to an Israeli F-15C and A-4 the A-4 crue ejected but the F-15C pilot didn't notice that he has no wing at all he landed safely in his base and the pilot was amazed when he saw he landed with no wing he did notice that it's hard to control the plane (he wasn't stupid ) here some pics of the F-15 after he landed :o amazing !! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Tselepides 1 Posted November 10, 2003 :D I was referring exactly to this photo above, and the post was at simhq forums. What bothered me was that the guy who wrote the post made it seem as a unique occurrence-which it sure was not. To prove that, I mentioned the other incidents above and started this thread. Jinx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nesher 628 Posted November 10, 2003 buddy, there is a difference between all the incidents and the time they happended.... the F-15C and the A-4 was in the late 70's... and its was the first time in a SuperSonic Jet the Hornet Landed with 5 feet short of a wing, not short of all of it and that can prove one thing,and one thing only!! Isareli Pilots are High :P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
