For Us Aircraft Fans - F-15 Amazing Landing

[RKing]

A most amazing aircraft, and an extreamly lucky aircrew! pretty good flying too!
http://biggeekdad.com/2012/10/f-15-...51dc3693d4cb22f&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=7

 

[xAaron]

Luck, good aircraft and very good skills saved the aircraft and pilot.

 

[Johnapool]

Wow....what a job of flying!!!

 

[goofyone]

That pilot definitely has some really big cojones, a lot of skill, and some really good luck.

 

[JEBar]

way beyond amazing ..... totally unbelievable

 

[NSTG8R]

I was still working on F-14's in the Navy when that happened, but I've got around 23 yrs on F-15's now. She's a pretty tough bird for sure!
But all credit goes to the pilot for keeping his cool and getting it to the ground in one piece...more or less.
Looking at the damage. With a little NDI on the wing lugs to make sure they didn't crack, you could slap a new r/h wing on there and have her back in the air within a couple of days. The aircrew seat cushions were probably a total loss.

 

[Dusty921]

Navigator to Pilot: Holy Strawberries Batman, are we in a jam.

 

[Johnapool]

I used to wring out one of these little 7ACA Champs over the Ozarks, with a 60 hp Franklin 2 cylinder engine. Thank goodness we never lost a wing....it was bad enough if we lost a cylinder....no starter, no electric system...had to dive it to get it up to 100mph for a loop......


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[BigWarpGuy]

that was incredible.

 

[Lil4X]

It happened a couple of times to the F-4, and aircraft known to have all the aerodynamic characteristics of a brick in flight. In our case, a Phantom was launched off the deck with the wings unlocked - and on departure, looked like this:

Dropping external stores, the pilot managed to make it to a bingo field at Sigonella where a couple days inspection and repair returned the aircraft to flight status and he and his RIO flew back to the carrier. Upon his return, the pilot in a very solemn ceremony was presented a pair of gold pilot's wings - hacksawed and bent upward.