Timeline for What control inputs to make if a wing falls off?
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| Jun 5, 2023 at 13:45 | vote | accept | Cloud | ||
| Jun 3, 2023 at 1:05 | comment | added | fectin | @someone military.com/video/military-aircraft-operations/… | |
| Jun 3, 2023 at 0:20 | comment | added | Someone | @fectin so something can fall up? | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 21:25 | comment | added | fectin | @supercat arguably! But the same might be said of a missile, which would also otherwise be described as falling off an aircraft, so I think the same reaoning still holds. | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 20:44 | answer | added | Camille Goudeseune | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 15:52 | history | protected | Ralph J♦ | ||
| Jun 2, 2023 at 15:48 | comment | added | supercat | @fectin: Could a wing with an attached motor/propeller, power source, and control system that was designed for the task turn into an "aircraft" if it had a sufficient thrust/weight ratio, and the engine was able to sufficiently increase thrust while pointed upward and decrease it when pointed downward, and if when free-falling the engine would assume an upward orientation? | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 15:31 | answer | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 14:23 | comment | added | fectin | @john an aircraft without a wing is still an aircraft; a wing without an aircraft is just very large FOD. As we know from TFOA, the aircraft must be the part that other things fall off of. Thus, the wing must fall off the aircraft, rather than the reverse. | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 11:42 | comment | added | Tero Lahtinen | Seems to me that best control input is to turn on afterburner to get enough speed for the remaining control inputs to work. | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 14:58 | comment | added | John Bollinger | Quoth the pilot of that F15: "it's highly likely that if I had seen it clearly I would have ejected, because it was obvious you couldn't really fly an airplane like that." | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 4:16 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @Adam: aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2020/october/pilot/… also comments on that video being fake. But that article cites a real incident from 1970, involving a Zlin Z 526A Akrobat flown by retired RAF test pilot Neil Williams. The left wing spar broke while pulling out of a dive. (But stayed connected, so flying inverted he had lift from both wings.) He managed to land it right-side-up with a last-second roll, similar to that RC plane hoax! | |
| May 31, 2023 at 20:01 | comment | added | reirab | @Adam Thank goodness for extremely high TWR in that airplane. "Produce your lift with the engine instead" isn't an option in most airplanes. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 18:07 | comment | added | Richard | Does kissing your arse goodbye count as a control adjustment? | |
| May 31, 2023 at 9:46 | comment | added | John | Being pedantic (and a little facetious...), a wing won't fall off a plane in flight. The wing is generating lift, therefore when first severed the wing will rise with the weight of the body no longer holding it down... so (initially at least) the plane falls off the wing! ;-) | |
| May 31, 2023 at 8:25 | comment | added | Vladimir F Героям слава | @Adam The video discussion has a link to the actual film making youtube.com/watch?v=naSZBdJoEbM | |
| May 30, 2023 at 23:26 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @Criggie: With Aviate and Navigate no longer possible, Communicate where to look for your crash site? | |
| May 30, 2023 at 22:50 | comment | added | Adam | Here's the way to do it: youtube.com/watch?v=lObfaKxqUwA And, an analysis of that video: youtube.com/watch?v=I89EMDZ0dsc | |
| May 30, 2023 at 22:45 | comment | added | Criggie | Reach for the radio and get off a mayday? | |
| May 30, 2023 at 22:22 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 30, 2023 at 18:26 | answer | added | John K | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 30, 2023 at 16:20 | history | edited | Chris | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 30, 2023 at 15:25 | answer | added | Therac | timeline score: 70 | |
| May 30, 2023 at 14:51 | answer | added | Jamiec♦ | timeline score: 11 | |
| May 30, 2023 at 14:13 | history | asked | Cloud | CC BY-SA 4.0 |