Pilot Lands Plane With One Wing Missing!
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Maybe a pearoast and also apparently a fake but very convincing none the less! 
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90vnB6gUME
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90vnB6gUME
It has been pulled off several times in the world of model aerobatic comps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlzUaeb1Msc
This is probably the closest to it happening in the full size world!
Snapped Wing Spar
While practicing for the 1970 world aerobatic flyoff, British champion Neil Williams felt the wing spar of his Zlin 526 suddenly fail during a pullout from a vertical dive. As he instinctively closed the throttle and tried to level off, Williams realized that the left wing was folded at nearly a 45-degree angle to the fuselage, severed at the root but still somehow held in place.
Sure that he was about to die, Williams flashed back to a Bulgarian Zlin pilot who'd snapped an upper wing bolt while flying inverted. When that airplane flick-rolled upright in reaction to the suddenly askew spar, the wing flopped back into position under positive Gs and held until the stunned pilot landed. Williams figured that if he'd had the opposite failure upright, maybe he could invert the Zlin and hold the wing in place with negative Gs long enough to at worst crash-land inverted, perhaps into trees to cushion the impact.
With the airplane on its back and the broken wing indeed maintaining a tenuous connection, Williams now had another problem: The Zlin's engine died. He'd inadvertently jostled the fuel cock closed during the confusion, but he got the engine restarted, remembering to select the correct tank for inverted flight.
The airfield from which he'd departed, RAF Hullavington, was now nearby, and his ground crew had already summoned crash trucks, so Williams decided to land there. He flew the pattern and final approach inverted and at the last possible moment rolled the Zlin upright and flopped onto the ground just as the left wing totally failed.
At the last possible moment? Consider this: The Zlin's left wingtip briefly furrowed the airstrip grass for six yards while the airplane rolled from inverted to level, yet never broke the plastic cover of the wingtip nav light.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlzUaeb1Msc
This is probably the closest to it happening in the full size world!
Snapped Wing Spar
While practicing for the 1970 world aerobatic flyoff, British champion Neil Williams felt the wing spar of his Zlin 526 suddenly fail during a pullout from a vertical dive. As he instinctively closed the throttle and tried to level off, Williams realized that the left wing was folded at nearly a 45-degree angle to the fuselage, severed at the root but still somehow held in place.
Sure that he was about to die, Williams flashed back to a Bulgarian Zlin pilot who'd snapped an upper wing bolt while flying inverted. When that airplane flick-rolled upright in reaction to the suddenly askew spar, the wing flopped back into position under positive Gs and held until the stunned pilot landed. Williams figured that if he'd had the opposite failure upright, maybe he could invert the Zlin and hold the wing in place with negative Gs long enough to at worst crash-land inverted, perhaps into trees to cushion the impact.
With the airplane on its back and the broken wing indeed maintaining a tenuous connection, Williams now had another problem: The Zlin's engine died. He'd inadvertently jostled the fuel cock closed during the confusion, but he got the engine restarted, remembering to select the correct tank for inverted flight.
The airfield from which he'd departed, RAF Hullavington, was now nearby, and his ground crew had already summoned crash trucks, so Williams decided to land there. He flew the pattern and final approach inverted and at the last possible moment rolled the Zlin upright and flopped onto the ground just as the left wing totally failed.
At the last possible moment? Consider this: The Zlin's left wingtip briefly furrowed the airstrip grass for six yards while the airplane rolled from inverted to level, yet never broke the plastic cover of the wingtip nav light.
no doubt it can be done - just wasnt in the viral video.
I once folded the wings on a vintage RC plane (hepcat), pulling loops too tight and snapped the spar.
Wings were banded on and departed fluttering away in the breeze.
The fuselage continued in an arc engine on full chat (PAW diesel engine had no throttle control) before spearing the ground - I had full up stick in of course LOL as if it made ANY difference
Retrieved the wings, unearthed the fuz, repaired the concertena'd section of the fuz and installed a much stronger spar and flew it the next weekend.
Oh and it also needed a new prop.
The guys flying at the nats are flying light wing loading 3d (high alpha)capable models, they are pro standard and the planes are supremely capable.
I once folded the wings on a vintage RC plane (hepcat), pulling loops too tight and snapped the spar.
Wings were banded on and departed fluttering away in the breeze.
The fuselage continued in an arc engine on full chat (PAW diesel engine had no throttle control) before spearing the ground - I had full up stick in of course LOL as if it made ANY difference
Retrieved the wings, unearthed the fuz, repaired the concertena'd section of the fuz and installed a much stronger spar and flew it the next weekend.
Oh and it also needed a new prop.
The guys flying at the nats are flying light wing loading 3d (high alpha)capable models, they are pro standard and the planes are supremely capable.
Mutley said:
mrloudly said:
The F15 has massive control authority to overcome the lost wing roll with huge elevons and the body does contribute a lot of lift, still mightily impressive though!
Pilot is quoted as saying if he'd known he'd have ejectedGrant76 said:
Mutley said:
mrloudly said:
The F15 has massive control authority to overcome the lost wing roll with huge elevons and the body does contribute a lot of lift, still mightily impressive though!
Pilot is quoted as saying if he'd known he'd have ejectedTobyLaRohne said:
Grant76 said:
Mutley said:
mrloudly said:
The F15 has massive control authority to overcome the lost wing roll with huge elevons and the body does contribute a lot of lift, still mightily impressive though!
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