Any landing you can walk away from

V-Tails will do it too if you let them.

Ive seen pictures of Ansons doing it but not many others 😉

Israel has never released any video of the F-15 flying on one wing. There are photographs of it on the ground after landing, and at least one grainy picture of it just before landing but you can’t make out any detail. McDonnell Douglas sent a team to completely document and study the aircraft but I’ve never seen any of those photographs.

The video that originated on The History Channel is simply footage of a normal F-15 that has had the starboard wing removed by using an early version of a digital paint box to “paint out” the wing from the film. It was a frame-by-frame process. The recreation footage was intentionally somewhat blurry because they were using stock footage for all of the flying scenes. Add to that the fact that this particular clip is nearly 20 years old and was probably videotaped off the air to an analog VCR and then later re-digitized back a computer and uploaded to YouTube. The original broadcast on cable was pretty low quality, and this clip is 3 or 4 generations removed from that.

It’s a great story but there is no good footage. I had hoped that they would do an episode of “Dogfights” and do a complete CG recreation of it but that series only lasted 2 seasons. In the frame below, the 2 pictures on the right are real and unaltered post-flight photos of the Israeli F-15. The 2 frames on the left are digitally altered videotape of a normal USAF F-15.

I like the blurry reinactment, all that control column wiggling and button pushing, they need to get better camera men that can focus a camera for reinactments 😀
Landing with one wing off with no rudder deflection, full flap down on the good wing and the fuse spoiler fully open? Does anybody else think this isn’t quite right?
One engine outlet was on full power for opposite assymetric thrust to help no wing, that looks right but the rest just doesn’t look right.
Somebody using a similar name to mine dared question the footage before on another forum
http://www.supercub.org/forum/showthread.php?31824-F-15-Midair-footage
Can’t help those stirrers on the net :rolleyes:

Where’s the like button.

After seeing your F-14 pic in the other thread, it reminded me of the Israeli F-15 that landed back with its stbd wing missing, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afaYlJ8a1AU