Print Page - Israeli F-15 Flies with One Wing!

When I was in high school in the late 80's, an F-15 mechanic friend of mine based in Germany sent me pictures of that incident. I've been an F-15 fan ever since... well, that and also because I also managed to have an F-15 simulator for the Commodore 64 which I played on a black/white TV (one of the few TV's in the entire country). It was my friend's opinion, that what helped a lot was also the onboard computers that automatically deflect remaining control surfaces in such a way to compensate for any control surfaces it senses are missing... though being a super pilot I'm sure also helps--with a nerve to hit afterburner instead of ejecting, while spiraling out of control (initially) after a collision. He also told me that even though it had been reported as a collision, the wing was actually taken off by a "friendly" missile. Not sure why a press release would try to hide that aspect if that was really true, other than the IAF was supposed to be more embarrassed to report having a plane hit by friendly fire vs. a collision, during training... Either way--a collision was still involved. LOL.Anyway, that's really cool to actually hear the description of what happened straight from the horses mouth!TX-ScubaSteveWhite 4

....if you have the Military Channel on your satellite or cable system that clip was from the series "Heavy Metal"....I think the user had to pull it as it was copyrighted....but you might be able to catch it on a re-run of the show....TX-CudaMinister of Information

Real World Aviation => Real world aviation => Topic started by: TX-CUDA on July 27, 2006, 10:53:10 pm