F-15 lands with one wing

[@Obelisk57]

This only shows McDonnell Douglas has been selling all their F-15 customers something they didn't need - an extra wing. The 2nd wing should be an option on the delux models.

[@doneverhesitate288]

ea wants to buy f15s and make the second wing a dlc

[@knazoo105]

DoNeverHesitate They would do that.

[@christiangallo241]

Steve that's the funniest thing I heard today 😂😂

[@michaelcox3848]

Knazoo ........ N I hate the queen

[@michaelcox3848]

Mkkk

[@BadIdeas101]

Proves that with enough horsepower, anything can fly.

[@royhsieh4307]

+BadIdeas101 reminds me of indian flying carpets.

[@ВасяТеркин-ь3с]

+Roy Hsieh Bingo. В точку. Ковёр-самолёт.

[@davinderc]

+BadIdeas101 so what you're saying is that if I put enough horses in my catapult, they'll keep flying forever?

[@BadIdeas101]

exactly!

[@OldTownLad]

You can do it with real BALLS and cold blood. And this man have it.

[@empclan2046]

This plane only dies when given permission to do so

[@nileyellow2703]

The Glock discuss you not the clock.

[@MusingMageofDisney]

No! I did not have permission to crash!

[@yamahonkawazuki]

israerl doesnt grant permission

[@matthewbradley3395]

The F-15 is design incorporates elements of a lifting body. Same as the NASA orbiter. The loss of one wing is not fatal. Devastating but not fatally so. The problem becomes how to maintain lift and bleed off airspeed for a controlled landing. This pilot did an incredible job.

[@guysiddyfo]

+Matthew Bradley Same is (was) true of the F-14 Tomcat, even more so.

[@PSC4.1]

@@guysiddyfo kind of, I mean with that sweeping wing I imagine with that big of a control surface just sheared off, it would have a hard time flying because of its weight.

[@GoofySillyGuy]

Sadly I can’t like this post because it is at 69 likes, but take this comment as a like

[@satagaming9144]

legend has it that his navigator simply stated: "you have a hole in your right wing"

[@Rhynnnd]

XD

[@igoryst3049]

ATTACK THE D POINT

[@belonn6121]

@@igoryst3049 Never!

[@MrErictank]

How would he know that, with the wing missing? "I think there's a hole in the wing. Wherever the wing actually is."

[@ThatAviationGamer]

@@igoryst3049 No! (also very very late comment lol)

[@zeratul7975]

"Yo buddy. Still alive?" - Solo Wing Pixy

[@shapman280]

Ace combat zero intentifys

[@Carlos27thFS]

I guess you're right. The 15 is a UFO. In the DCS game as well, so they developed it accurately.

[@AndhikaG]

So this is the real refrence for 'Solo Wing'?

[@kameron1290]

@@AndhikaG yup, if there’s any inspiration for the incident that gave Pixy his nickname, it would be this one.

[@Uncle_Shamrock]

[@atcbill]

This is not the only time this happened with an Eagle. When I was a controller in New Mexico, an F-15 and a T-38 collided during air to air maneuvers on the range. The T-38 pilots ejected safely and the F-15 landed with only one wing. I was working the tower that day. Couldn't believe it. Amazing aircraft.

[@faizanrasheed7123]

🙌🏻

[@Historybuffm8]

What year did it happen?

[@hehe-du9il]

This deserves more likes

[@bobsullivan6857]

Can you imagine? His navigator is staring at the place where the wing used to be while the pilot is talking about landing....And he didn't eject. Truly a man of faith!

[@deekamikaze]

Well neither of them knew the wing was actually gone until they made it to the ground

[@mokomothman5713]

*...and thus, the pilot was given a new nickname: Solo Wing Pixy.*

[@Blaze108oficial]

For those who know about ace combat may remember Larry "Solo Wing Pixy" Foulke in AC0... He flew an f-15 jet with just one wing (the real event was the inspiration actually)

[@Kimdino1]

That's why Japan likes the F15 so much. An aircraft that can do a Kamikaze kill & still get home.

[@machinegunbenji]

Kimdino1 lol

[@WolffeLive]

Kimdino1 oml, this is great

[@Kimdino1]

+Elijah Cortes I very much take your point. My comment can be seen as in very bad taste when taken from that point of view. A view that really does need to be remembered. I regret all the innocents who have been killed in all wars. But these things you just have to find a reason to laugh about in order to stay sane. And a great deal of humour has victims, and the world would be unbearably drab without it. I don't believe we should block such humour, instead we should make it redundant. Your 'lol' prefix indicates that you may be of like mind?

[@janlics]

Kimdino1 actually would be like te the "tai atari" (or something like that, if someone knows japanease please correct me) wich means body crash or body impact (it was two years ago wen i read the book which explains it, so i don't remember ir exactly), anyway those where pilots who decided to crash their planes against the enemys when they fail their atacs or ran out of ammo. Other pilots (but german) that have this objective were the sonderkommando elbe, but they look for cutting off the enemis tail bith their plane's helix an then jump with parachute Kamikazes have as targer only the ships (mainly carriers), not the planes

[@EliranC]

Racist as fuck but so funny xD

[@OSEAN_AIR_DEFENSE_FORCE]

This is a certified solo wing pixy moment

[@KinguKirimuzon]

If he used the F-15 instead of the ADFX-02 during the last fight with Cipher, he coulda done this and zoomed away while the V2 countdown goes off😂

[@Motor-City-Mike]

regardless of the cause of the collision, it's a damn impressive feat to overcome every ounce of the impulse to eject from the air craft, then establish just how to fly it in a thoroughly crippled state. Damn skippy he's a hell of a pilot.

[@sixsentsoldiers]

Mike US OG K I agree. But 1 wing? Skills collided with, uh, it wasn't his time.

[@Motor-City-Mike]

SixSentSoldiers That's why it's called training.

[@danielsteger8456]

he was not aware about the missing wing

[@speed150mph]

@@Motor-City-Mike nobody trains pilots how to fly with one wing. That was pure instinct and good airmanship there. To determine that the best way to regain control in a spiralling dive is to firewall the throttle. Not many would have done that, especially when they had the option to punch out. He even said, if he had known his right wing was gone at the root, he wouldn’t have even tried.

[@MrSnapy1]

Giving new meaning to the expression "On a wing and a prayer"

[@Justwantahover]

On A wing and a LOT of prayers.

[@razgriz1258]

"I've had my share of going home without wings -Solo Wing Pixy

[@ZFilms11]

"I don't belive any other aircraft could have taken that ammount of damage" *COUGH* A-10 *COUGH*

[@PaulEstrada1]

Captain Kruk Probably not, there are two things I can think of why that f-15 could land: 1. Great use of body lift in f-15 design; although the wings are the main source of lift, the wide body design actually creates lift too. 2. Twin vertical stabilizers with control surfaces at the back of the F-15, making possible of counteract the torque of the asymmetrical lift. The A-10 is a "flying fortress" but it's large span wings are generating all the lift, at its rudder could not handle that. It's mostly about the design and not about the armor they have (talking about landing the aircraft). Aeronautical engineering student.

[@HarryL2020]

Paul Estrada they will never listen, not sure why.

[@GothamsGarage]

Hugrit A-10 warthog is a great plane but it is simply too big and cannot fly with one wing without rolling uncontrollably.

[@spacekraken666]

*COUGH* SU-25 *COUGH*

[@Rangerman69420]

I think the f-18 and F-22 probably could an A-10 maybe depends on the pilot really tho not the aircraft.

[@advanced0018]

The real Solo Wing.

[@heerosefffinchannel5387]

Yo buddy still alive?

[@WhyAmIHereNowOHWell]

@@heerosefffinchannel5387 and thanks friend, see you again

[@dennis2129]

nokia + plane = f-15

[@sponky8614]

A10 probarby

[@agent1798]

@@sponky8614 Damn took my line!

[@w0rm45]

@@agent1798 dude.

[@xygomorphic44]

I bet he following conversation took place among the producers of this documentary: "Hey guys lets spoil the pilot's interview with some annoying electric guitar music."

[@RLam-se6em]

Glad I'm not the only one who finds that "music" annoying.

[@mossthatrules77]

+R. Lam Obnoxious Pop fans eh?

[@guardiadecivil6777]

Musics like that are commonly use for army documentaries to make them badass

[@markbutenhoff470]

Shoot out

[@skyflier8955]

Landing with a missing wing is not durability, it stability and good engineering.

[@musiccylinderK6]

There you go! Thanks! Broke a wing ---> .... ---> very durable. What?

[@trespire]

Good sound engineering can get you far. Hope the engineers responsible for the Eagle's design got some recognition.

[@jwadaow]

It was luck, they didn't design it for that purpose.

[@buckeyehockey1979]

It was good engineering, a lot of luck, and one hell of a pilot.

[@karolisn.9475]

war planes are designed to fly with heavy damage. Of course, i dont think that the engineers intended it to fly on so little, but the fact that the flight computers could handle it is a testament to there fine engineering.

[@libertário10]

The aircraft was subsequently repaired and saw further combat action.

[@Agm1995gamer]

Probably. The idf doesn't let a single part go to waste 😅

[@anarchyandempires5452]

Hum.... According to Wikipedia it's still in service, also apparently no F-15 has been lost to enemy Warbirds.

[@eyemaz1493]

Yes the name of the aircraft is : מרקיע שחקים :) he participated 6 months later in other combat and in 1986 in the bombing of PLO terror camps in Tunisia that’s 2600 one way from Israel using refuelling Aircraft. Impossible is not 🇮🇱

[@eyemaz1493]

2600 km

[@fastone942]

@@anarchyandempires5452 to date only a F15J has shot down a F15J from Japan and a US F15 shot by accident a AIM9 into a F15 outside the one engine was torn up that plane did flew back to its base though

[@theDudeOfDudes]

What I really want to know is: What happened on last week's episode of the revolution????

[@HappyDayArny]

TheDudeofDudes jews make me wanna barf

[@Rofiquel]

+♔ArnyKinz♔ I understand you but that Jew landed with one wing man

[@HappyDayArny]

rofiqul islam yeah he'll get nuked when iran or us or ussr or north korea nukes israel.

[@doublebubleguy12]

+♔ArnyKinz♔ That's why we elect conservatives as they are allies with Israel, I personally like Ted Cruz the best:p

[@thepezfeo]

+♔ArnyKinz♔ Israel is way more capable of delivering one of their nukes to Iran or N. Korea than the other way round. Iran doesn't have nukes, and N. Korea doesn't have missile or aircraft that could reach the middle east (I think their best missile can just reach Japan.... and I don't know if it could reach Japan with a War-head)

[@MDealer]

I bet the F35 would shut down and display a link to technical support website.

[@nonono9406]

Lol

[@rearspeaker6364]

a potato gun could knock a F-35 out of the sky---with a biplane!!

[@pk1260]

**indian voice** yes hello microsoft tech support how can i help you ?

[@jillamuji6703]

old spitfire can defeat those F35...! just look at it"s gun.. no match for F35..

[@remutar6979]

+jilla muji if it ever sees batel the f-35 best wapon is gona be that its underastamted. Its way to expensive fore what it is. But underastamting yore enemy is one of the most danurous mistakes in war.

[@tallynnyntyg6008]

Real life inspiration for Solo-Wing Pixy here.

[@jocking3]

Israeli pilot... that explains everything: Pilot: My wing broke off! Tower: Do not eject, land the plane! It was too expensive to crash it!

[@diegohedrick3628]

Well the plane was pretty much useless after this the structural integrity was critically damaged and there's no way they could fix it but however this is proof that the f-15 is one of the best fighter aircraft in the world and changed history.

[@spacemanspiff8978]

quatar pignolio The plane was actually repaired and saw further combat service. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle#Notable_accidents

[@Demonicpurity]

jocking3 A plane like that is good for morale and show boating. No self respecting air force would throw it away and not either getting it flying again or put it in a museum.

[@jocking3]

Nilguiri That's another version, yes.

[@galloway6205]

jocking3 Most people don't throw things away that cost a lot of money...

[@obliviousfafnir01]

So, in other words, the F-15 without wings, and with enough thrust, performs as a lifting body. One of many reasons why it's considered the best fighter ever designed.

[@MaRaX93]

Ok furry

[@obliviousfafnir01]

@@MaRaX93 Yes

[@MaRaX93]

@@obliviousfafnir01 degenerate

[@jeshkam]

That's American engineering for you. 🙂

[@aldohernandez7932]

As long as thrust and lift overpower drag and gravity anything can fly

[@РоманРомановичКругляков]

"на честном слове и на одном крыле" Respect this pilot!

[@riparianlife97701]

The most amazing part was all the electric guitar wa-wa's. It was amazing he was able to concentrate through all that.

[@wll1500]

Yo, Buddy. Still Alive..?

[@Aero7SVR]

+wll1500 And thanks friend. See you again.

[@faaf_quaaf]

+Aero7SVR *roll credits*

[@ajaxaceofaces]

+wll1500 Good to see some people know of Galm 2: Larry "Pixy" Foulke

[@mobiusloop]

Ace combat rules!

[@MichaelTrendafilov]

I was on this thread looking for a Solo Wing Pixy comment. Bless you, sir! See you on AC:7 on the PS4!

[@richardcline1337]

In watching this I am impressed with the pilot's flying skills. If people will take the time to go as far back as WWII in Europe there are many stories of B-17's coming back that in no way logically possible with the damage they had should they have even managed to stay in the air but they did and they brought their crews home again.

[@ooocrowooo]

Well there you go, no wings, lower cost, no problem, balls of steel what could possibly go wrong lol.

[@xSy7]

lol

[@indianmarshmello.]

yea this is what life should be cheap and fast

[@Chuck59ish]

the Israelis aren't the only ones to do this, It happened in Alaska too, Two F-15s were on Cap patrol back in 1990 and on the way home they decided to play, but one of them forgot to turn off his missiles, so he got a lock on the other aircraft, pulled the trigger and the Sparrow fired, took out the left engine, left rudder and the left elevator, and they made it back to Elmendroff AB, I heard it from another F-15 pilot.

[@nathanchetram287]

Holy shit, this plane is a freaking...eagle!

[@Chuck59ish]

That's why it's still a top fighter/ground attack aircraft after almost 35 years.

[@nathanchetram287]

Charles Damery Pretty impressive aircraft, coming from a Canadian.

[@Chuck59ish]

24 years ago when I was posted to CFB Comox on Vancouver Island we had and they probably still do have a lot of American aircraft heading to anf from Alaska from McCord Joint Forces base in Washington, I think that's what it's called now, they combined McCord AB with the Army down there. Anyway, Air Force and U.S.Navy planes in Comox all the time. One time before they retired the SA-3 Viking sone of the guys fro the Aurora squadron brought down the Aurora floppy disk and got the Viking guys to run it and the Viking went nut , shoved out it's MAD boom and wingtips were clicking and everything. Most of the detection equipment on the Auroras came off the Vikings, so it was pretty funny.

[@nathanchetram287]

+Charles Damery Haha, I would imagine so. We may not have the most advanced military aircraft, but I'm a half hour drive away from one of the worlds last few flying Avro Lancasters. Never got a chance to see it in action though, maybe some time next year. Hamilton airport in Ontario always has a huge airshow, which includes a formation flight of all sorts of merlin powered aircraft, including the lancaster.

[@nate_tmas]

“Yo, buddy? Still flying?” PIXY!!!! 😍😍😍

[@crewcutter2030]

Why does the plane have to get all the credit, I mean come on, the pilot was really good.

[@jaym2267]

Because, the pilot was the one who got into that situation.

[@ericsiemienczuk7217]

It takes two to collide.

[@lebensvideo]

The man has the balls of titanium.

[@rearspeaker6364]

Black Stallion--- when your.enemy uses children as human shields because they are pussies- you have NO choice--do the Mission--let got sort it out.---- put yourself in their shoes!!!

[@rearspeaker6364]

"let god sort it out"-- from above.

[@chancedavis6216]

lebensvideo *stalinium

[@epsilon6516]

THAT'S ONE HELL OF A PILOT!

[@johnnymartinez733]

Someone better then Maverick or ice Man 💯

[@albertsandberg]

I find it hard to believe he can sit down with those gigantic balls

[@jennymisteqq695]

Albert Sandberg I think you meant “bells”.

[@darkveneno6155]

He is trained to remain calm in those situations.

[@griggsgibs3933]

During the prototypes of the Sukhoi 27, a test aircraft was flying over the Western Urals of the USSR when its wing broke off. It managed to fly back to its airfield and land safely like this. Best jets. F/15E and Su/27.

[@shamrocks521]

Can you give me a link to the story, I would love to read it!

[@robertbrockway6580]

Can't be to good if it fail off in normal flight.

[@griggsgibs3933]

Robert Brockway Mind you it was in prototype stage.

[@robertbrockway6580]

Dmitry esvek YEA right.

[@griggsgibs3933]

Robert Brockway Mind you it was in a prototype stage.

[@AvroBellow]

Ace Combat has a tribute to this event in Ace Combat Zero. Your wingman's callsign is "Solo-1 Pixy" and he flies an Eagle with a red wing to commemorate when he landed an F-15 with only one wing.

[@Junkman2008]

Surely he picked up some kind of nickname for pulling this off!

[@warhawk9566]

+Junkman2000 Solo Wing Pixy

[@Junkman2008]

+warhawk9566 Lol!

[@burnerjack01]

+Junkman2000 "Stinky pants"?

[@fazebanksyellingatatraffic8759]

+Junkman2000 i get it!

[@audimanuk]

Junkman2000 : Clipper 1 ?

[@xXGamingFactorXx]

4:35 "I don't think any other aircraft could've taken that amount of damage or that portion of flight surfaces removed and continue to bring us home safely" *A-10C Warthog* "Hold My Beer"

[@unclebillybob1359]

No, the a-10 can only fly stable with the wing down to the landing gear at most. not having the entire thing sheared off. the a-10's fuselage isn't wide nor flat enough to generate any kind of lift. and the tailfin can not handle that much weight.

[@landoplayz9774]

B-17 Tbf-1c avenger

[@blackdeath4eternity]

what allot of you are missing is "that amount of damage or flight surfaces removed" it dose not specify a whole wing removed, just a equal amount of damage & flight surfaces, the A10 i think has more wing to spare dose it not?

[@dereenaldoambun9158]

Broo A-10 will go down like a broken bird if you remove that one wing while the F-15 will still flying & landed safely.

[@Jeremiasz29]

A-10C Warthog "Hold My wing"

[@Azeltirish]

He is the man called Solo Wing Pixy

[@karthiksekar2009]

guys if the right wing is gone the the plane tries to roll in clockwise direction duo to upward force of the left wing - all the pilot has to do is create a counter moment in the elevators by trying to roll in the counter-clockwise direction -i-e- right elevator -trim down and left elevator - trip up. and use afterburners to create enough thrust to compensate the loss of upward force that has to be produced by the broken right wing. But of course theory and practice are different. Its very difficult to get the uncontrolled roll under control and then fly the plane in the above configuration, as the auto-stabilizing avionics are not equipped to handle such excessive damage. -i-e the pilot has to decide how much trim up/down of the elevators he has to give and how much thrush he has to give based of how the plane is behaving and how much g-force the pilot is experience. Not to mention these decisions have to taken at speed around 800 km/hr, which is quite difficult. This guy is one hell of a pilot.

[@TheGribbleNator]

It's unlikely that he was going more than 400 km/h and you kind of rambled/said some unnecessary stuff, but yes. The pilot is merely correcting for the change in the flight model. His joystick was probably pulled back and to the left for the remainder of the flight.

[@thatguyonyoutube807]

It's amazing what skilled pilots can do to regain control, I once heard a story (not sure if it's true or not) but a stunt pilot regained control from an inverted flat spin after a stall from entering a jet stream by bringing the aircraft into a downward attitude to restart the engine and then pulling out of the spin and back into the air, marshals and controllers thought it was part of the stunt

[@factnotfictionpeople1313]

+Karthik Sekar Gee, is that all? .......

[@karthiksekar2009]

+you said his joystick cant be pulled all the way to the left. If he created extra force in the wrong direction the plane would start rolling in the wrong direction and the aircraft would go into something called pilot induced oscillations when he is tries to correct it. Also he is not piloting in vacuum, i.e. he has to compensate for the unbalanced forces the wind exerts on his aircraft. Which is usually done by the avionics which am sure have already failed seeing as he lost a wing. Case in point try driving a single wheel cycle at 150 km/hr - thats what he did. 400 km/hr is still a lot of speed giving him hardly a fraction of a second to make minor changes to his controller. to the unexpected forces action on his place.

[@karthiksekar2009]

+ThatGuyonKZbin well his body must be really strong if he dint back out during such a manoeuvre

[@jackozbloke5079]

In Soviet Russia wing break you

[@MrMoney-no8ry]

In Soviet Russia, plane flies you

[@darrelll1207]

in soviet russia, mig crash

[@chancedavis6216]

darrell l lmao

[@cosmo4698]

Jack Ozbloke Why am I laughing so hard.

[@jamesmcgee2463]

U.S. has better build quality in there planes

[@movieloverfan18]

I heard that when they told the manufacturer this story that they didn't believe it and decided the plane must have collided with something on the ground during the landing. But there was video of the collision and landing and they had to believe it. Funniest part is that if the pilot knew they didn't have a wing then he would have ejected, because landing was impossible. However, not knowing he didn't have a wing, he just landed it.

[@rocketeerPM2500]

Now that's damn good aircraft design coupled with real airmanship.

[@bobmajew53]

Every once in a while you run into a pilot that is phenomenal. It certainly says a lot for the F-15 as well.

[@adamcarpenter7823]

Used to love watching F-15's flying over Cape Cod years ago before they mostly closed the base. Was great to actually sit in one very long ago when air shows still happened on air bases. Got the rare chance to see some doing simulated dog fighting over the Otis AFB/Mashpee area about a year ago. It was awesome to watch and obviously very loud. F22 might be the new cats meow but there are still 431 F15's in active service compared to 195 F22 Raptors. Still an awesome thing seeing flying overhead!

[@Scorpi0nPrince]

Solo Wing Pixy

[@NotBrutal]

I was waiting to see that comment lol

[@MurphyMonster]

Except he needs a laser and the controls to a doomsday missile.

[@ryanadams2671]

[@veedub447]

That happened to me once, but I just stuck my arm outside to compensate, landed fine

[@NathanWibe]

When your plane only has wings to carry munitions

[@-Teus-]

The eagle has landed

[@diegoviniciomejiaquesada4754]

Somehow... XD

[@stinger6470]

Houston . we have a problem there's a f15 on the moon surface

[@jebediahkerman5397]

it sure it!

[@skanee12]

Marine J2000

[@nathangreenall7929]

Teus haha

[@christianbalos8609]

Fellow ace combat fans I believe we have found Solo wing pixy

[@theanchorshat585]

REJOICE

[@StrelitziaLiveries]

Galm team ftw

[@SeekerHead]

Christian Balos F22

[@aliacf8518]

THATS WHAT V2 WASH FOR

[@GAMRMNTS2]

Christian Balos 😂

[@Janos86]

Ustio Air Force wants to KNOW YOUR LOCATION

[@belkan1661]

Pixy intensifies

[@christiananderson5034]

@@belkan1661 Spanish Guitar intensifies

[@elbenja0088]

christian anderson Sapinish*

[@塔羅星]

"at the tail end!"

[@bobbycigarillo]

F15's are so badass

[@eugeniot.7824]

Evil Bastard, 1 Feels weird calling you that 2 They are still badass but there are more advanced aircraft out there. Though I'm yet to see a stealth aircraft that can carry an equal payload while mantaining stealth.

[@eugeniot.7824]

Evil Bastard, I agree I wanted to compare the two aircraft in more than 1 way. Maybe the F-22 isn't built to be able to fly with 1 wing (though it might be able to with trust vectoring) but it is made to prevent such damage in the first place. And if anyone is obsessed with payload it probably can take a similar one to the F-15's but it would rather not as that way it can remain stealthy. The huge deterrent to the F-22 is the price tag.

[@eugeniot.7824]

southwest1361, it used to be, but it has been replaced by more capable aircraft

[@jiaruiyan870]

i prefer the su27

[@thedodob1rd]

Evil Bastard What about the F-35

[@PixleOnYT]

The main question is what happened to the other plane he hit?

[@HoneyBadger363]

+PixelBlock If we go by the clips shown, I would think that one broke apart.....

[@DeepInYourLady]

+PixelBlock nothing

[@snuffysmif9801]

+PixelBlock: He landed with 3 wings... JK.

[@pbgrapejay1]

+PixelBlock It fireballed and crashed.

[@mobiusraptor7]

+PixelBlock He ejected, but then he reported the F-15 pilot to Gaijin for ramming.

[@gmctech]

this is a testament to a robust sturdy airframe and exceptional airmenship. I'm sure though that the massive horizontal stabilizer was providing lift.

[@Ronald7077]

That's the skill of Israeli pilots for you in an F15. Amazing.

[@johnj.hudson9033]

Ron Patterson any trained pilot could have done that. Credit goes to the airplane.

[@Ronald7077]

@@johnj.hudson9033 Airplane only a thing. Many aircraft could do similar, but not all. The pilot is the key to any skillful engagement that the victor survives usually.

[@TheIvangallo]

Skill of Israeli pilots... MF didn’t have any situational awareness and crashes while flying... with another aircraft The odds of that are astronomically and yet the Israeli pilot managed to lose >$30M nice job

[@robmiller1808]

You mean the pilots that had a mid air collision, destroyed one plane and heavily damaged another, more like kamikaze pilots. The main reason they landed was because the navigator was too clueless to notice a wing was gone.

[@kimmichaelgutierrez6]

Im sorry but did the israeli pilot who caused this mishap been exiled? If so then I agree with you, Israeli piloting skills are one of the best!

[@mikkirurk1]

My steel detector is ringing hard. *Someone here got true balls.*

[@trespire]

Titanium balls of steel :-) Don't want to mess with Israeli pilots.

[@chancedavis6216]

trespire ireali piolets. Got respect for them

[@jellyfishwithwifi6870]

"Yo buddy, still alive?"

[@ashscott6068]

The History channel....Where any big stone monument MUST be made by aliens, but machines that can fly faster than the speed of sound can still be man made.

[@kubiz8812]

+Ash Scott That´s smart. I like that a lot :-)

[@ashscott6068]

Kubiz Then i guess we're both paid shills, working for the illuminati to hide the truth

[@jeongaugustine3209]

big stones that existed before any sort of machinery was invented.

[@ashscott6068]

Jeong Augustine So? The largest stone ever moved by hand weighed around 1250 tons. almost 20 times heavier than ANY stone in ANY pyramid. It was moved in the 1700's in front of thousands of witnesses, and is still there in St Petersberg today. It was dragged with no use of machinery or magic, using exactly the same method used by ancient Egyptians...HARD WORK. A concept that Ancient Aliens theorists have no understanding of. The Romans dragged obelisks weighing over 1000 tons from Egypt all the way to Rome. To believe these things were not built by humans requires a level of mental defficiency that borders on actual retardation.

[@jeongaugustine3209]

Ash Scott I never said I don't believe that it was built by humans. I am just proposing an idea on why the history channel and many other people may believe otherwise. We live in the era where supersonic travel is possible and space exploration is possible. Since we are living the era, it doesn't seem weird or extra special. We are fully aware how it is done and how the technology was invented. Perhaps it is the mystery or underestimation of the people in the past that leads some to believe that the giant stone structures were built by aliens or some super natural force.

[@TheWizardofOblivion]

Incredible! Isnt it comforting to know that some of these pilots, who when leave the service, fly our commercial airliners. Thumb up!

[@TheHelghast1138]

Excellent aircraft!! In WW2 Germany had a recon aircraft (twin engine flying Eye, I believe it was made by a Arado) they would often be missing wings and huge chunks of their tail even engine and still be able to make it back to base due to the structural Integrity of the design, the Soviets also had a plane called IL-2 Sturmovik which could also take that kind of heavy damage, and the American P-38 Lightning during the war was also known to be able to take very heavy damage and come home, so could the American Thunderbolt fighter ground support aircraft. Holland also had an aircraft that could take heavy damage but they were never able to make it in very large numbers but it was excellent at destroying ground targets. At the very end of the war Italy also made an excellent aircraft which could also sustained heavy damage but virtually none of them were put into full production. Germany also had a heavy twin engine Henschel ground attack aircraft that was designed to take heavy damage that at one point had a 75 mm forward Canon, the heaviest gun mount on any aircraft untill the C-130 gunship. Of course everyone knows the A-10 heavy ground attack aircraft that America has today which on more than one occasion during combat they have lost large portions of their aircraft and still made it back to Base. I love planes, I'm hoping to be a pilot soon myself :-)

[@matrox]

A B17 would take as an ass kicking too and keep flying. Seen the pic of the B17 broken in half in the middle of the fuselage, still flying home to base during ww2. Just a small part of the airframe kept it from flying off and in one peice.

[@ddigwell]

Testament to McDonnell Douglas engineers and that pilots balls.

[@schl0tte]

If it was a German pilot flying the F-15 *no* wing would have been required

[@steveblackbird]

Such a perfect enduring design. Don't know how many times I've watched and studied this incident as an aircraft mechanical engineer, it's still very, deeply impressive. And so was the Pilot... Balls big enough to clank. Glad he managed to bring this bird in. Can't imagine the structural inspections that had to be done before the wing was replaced.. if indeed it ever flew again, but being a McDonnell Fighter... I'm sure she did... (I read somewhere, she spent three - five months in heavy maintenance and flew again like new) can't confirm, as Israel keeps her cards close to her chest.

[@E_y_a_l]

According to wikipedia it was repaired and even had a joint kill in 1985: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision

[@condorfox7]

It was back again in active service within 6 months, & flew many operational combat missions for the next 28 years, including taking part in various European Airshows. You should also try to look up the Reconstituted F-15 Eagle that the Israelis constructed out of the front & rear halves of 2 previous Eagle aircrashes

[@michaelvs.scorpio7676]

Absolutely amazing!! The McDonald Douglas F 15 is obviously a very well designed aircraft as this incident proves well beyond any doubt. It's history of the records that it broke is also a testimony to this. Great job, McDonald Douglas!!

[@YaBoiAssault]

we get it pixy.

[@puntoni]

Solo Wing.

[@monsterfatalis7182]

yo buddy, still alive?

[@StrelitziaLiveries]

Ah ace combat

[@damario4684]

Single red wing

[@vortigauntsteve49]

*THIS TWISTED GAME NEEDS TO BE RESET*

[@pattyoneill6724]

Bring back these kind of men, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, and how they handled this kind of problem! This guy is an inspiration, and is handling this story well, you need nerves of steel to survive and talk about something like this !

[@SleepyPopups.Unedited]

He better paint that broken wing spot *red* [you know what i mean]

[@zeke1312]

It's a amazing, so many aviation experts. Most probably never served in the military, never flew an aircraft, never went to aviation or top gun school, do not have an engineering degree, do not have a high school diploma, etc. ;)

[@raghunandanbs2005]

F 15 is truly the gigachad of the sky , a 100% kill rate and landing without a whole fking wing , meanwhile virgin f 22 barely managed to shoot down a baloon from Alibaba with maybe like a few hundred thousand dollar worth missile .

[@thenibblershow5305]

💀💀

[@SgtGullett38]

Pffft . Land without both wings and ill be impressed

[@GeneralG1810]

Here hold my beer

[@SgtGullett38]

***** hold ur own damn beer lol

[@SgtGullett38]

***** Damn, Land without a plane!!! Ill just jump off my garage. Thats only a 10 foot drop

[@GeneralG1810]

***** It's called ejecting!

[@SgtGullett38]

***** yah. if i land on my feet

[@reckz420]

Absolute fuckin' junk music in the background like a really bad 80s movie

[@buckrodgers3167]

Welcome to 2009

[@drpoundsign]

Highway to the Danger Zone!

[@jeffreyhill4695]

St. Devil shoulda used the top gun soundtrack!

[@kerry8793]

St. Devil go watch MTV butthead

[@nizitamaruvaka2294]

Top Gun IS the 80's.

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

Incredible airmanship -- bravo! So glad he "dodged that bullet" and that he could actually hold his position with one wing gone! Downright frightening, I thought he was going to eject but he rode it out -- landing at that speed was so chancy but they did have a net. The F-15 Eagle is one crazy-strong rocket bird! Without the speed of 5-600 mph, he couldn't have continued to fly! Glad that "one-wing-wonder" got down safely. Amazing! Thanks for posting this interesting incident! One can always learn from these. The F-15 is a favorite aircraft of mine. Amazing video -- I'll watch it again

[@commandershepherd8987]

This is where the "a barn door with rockets will fly" saying truly lives up to it's claim.

[@caicedo626]

BEST PLANE IN THE WORLD !!!!!!!! LONG LIVE THE F15 NO LOSSES NOT A SINGLE ONE !!*best fighter of all time !!!!!!!

[@Rocky_Intertidal]

Yep, as of 2008 it was 104 kills and 0 losses in aircraft vs aircraft engagements. I am not sure if any F-15 has ever been shot down due to enemy fire (AAA or SAM) anywhere.

[@Cinnabun]

***** They haven't been pitted against modern russian fighter aircraft yet...

[@aldenmartindale9033]

wat thats the strike (Ground attack)model though. usually when they say not a single loss they are referring to the air superiority variant of the F-15

[@inouelenhatduy]

wat mig 29 was made for f16 , su27 was made to vs f15 to bad iraq dont had any su27 + su27 never lose any plane in action ,( mostly vs with older soviet jet (mig29 , 23 ,27 vv ) so we dont know realy what hapend ì f15 vs su27

[@lxsc9080]

wat They shot down dumbed down special order mig 29s.... Saddam cut corners with radar and engines. Not to mention the average Iraqi pilot and Syrian pilot had fewer than 100 flight hours. Iraq actually crashed 4 mig 29s into the desert only 4 took off and were able to fight which 3 were shot down one was shot as it was taxiing on the runway. Now An SU27 which has beat the F15 in Red flag and coup india multiple times. The only way you guys could beat the SU30 was by pairing it with indias Mig21Bs... It dominated 1v1 3v3 and 2v2 only not preforming in india usa joint operation training against Canada, The radar did not have capabilities to sync with american F15s which resulted in friendly fire. My top 5 SU27 and its varients including the Multirole F14 Mig29 and varients Mig17 and mig31 are tied (actually was able to get in a cockpit of a mig 17 ) SAAB

[@G31M1]

Damn, that’s some sick shit. That just shows that everyone is capable of more than he thinks. When a pilot can land a plane with a single wing which is said to be impossible you can achieve so much more than you think as well!

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

Don't need no stinking wing to fly this thing......

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

????????

[@prestonb.5998]

lol wowo

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

You put enough power on a brick and it will fly.....

[@prestonb.5998]

Wilbur Finnigan lol

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

TRUE ! ! !

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

"YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING!!"

[@kk6aw]

right wing

[@armeytank]

wronggg its YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING!

[@jennymisteqq695]

armeytank54 54 I think he was upping the dramatics of this event a bit much.

[@bystander665]

Man I wish the history channel was still televising history.

[@meikelmyers3204]

..so why is the F-15 built with two Wings,...its flying better with only one wing than with two .

[@StrelitziaLiveries]

For the ocd's sake

[@kgoadidavid1277]

I think their wings are actually fuel storage

[@meikelmyers3204]

So my first thread was a joke. Respect to the F-15s

[@meikelmyers3204]

Lone Wolf83 haha ...never laughed so much. Try a Cobra with it ..and without Ejection Seat. After that we´ll talk about it .

[@meikelmyers3204]

not as yours.

[@ryanprettiiboiwilliams92]

5:20 "And only later when they went to analyze it, they said okay... the F-15 has a very wide body, if you fly fast enough, you're like a rocket, and you don't need wings." I fucking dropped on the floor laughing. American aerospace engineering meets Israeli piloting and you get the most devastating, feared combination in the world.

[@matrox]

The bigass vertical stabilizer acted as the wing.

[@johnclaudetaylor5224]

was thinking the same, and the body provides some lift too

[@LazlowRave]

"Yo stabilizer! You're up!" haha

[@BluTrollPro]

Its an amazing testament to good engineering and simplicity. It is a shame we no longer see this from western manufacturers, all they seem capable of producing nowadays is overcomplicated crap which works great in practices but fails at alarming rates on the battlefield.

[@trespire]

We ( the Israeli I.A.F ) just took delivery of the first two F35s. Personally I have serious doubts about the F35 design, but on the other hand I have immense faith in our I.A.I (Israeli Aircraft Industries) to make the F35 work for us. They must know something I don't !

[@BluTrollPro]

The F35 isn't a war machine, its is a billion dollar tech demo, a e-war computer with wings glued on to it. In the UK we are already having massive problems with them. The computer systems are designed by American private interests who will not give non-Americans the source programming to make their own changes. You cant trust the Americans to come out with anything useful nowadays, too much money is involved in their industries, contracts go to whoever lobbies the most. Real military innovation in the last couple of decades have come from Europe and the East, want a plane that can actually take off from a non-sterile battlefield runway? Buy Chinese/Russian, want a plane that can be fixxed in a wartime environment with limited resources? Buy Chinese/Russian. Want an airplane which can sustain massive damage and still be functional in combat? Hell keep your OLD American stock or go to Sukhol.

[@AuzFrog]

Are you talking about Windows 10 !

[@valenrn8657]

The latest F-15X has digital fly-by-wire and large touch screen just like F-35.

[@davidstowe1688]

You Must Be Smoking Some Bad Azz Weed, Or You Live Under A Rock. The F22 Raptor is a One Sight, One Shot, One Kill Fighter. Wake Up And See The News.

[@ryanprettiiboiwilliams92]

Israeli, most feared and best pilots in the world! Much love from Canada!

[@tahaachir9991]

Free palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@RogueRail]

This is how Pixy got his nickname Solo Wing.

[@tomh4544]

They didn't say anything about the other pilot and navigator that perished

[@arusinov]

It was single-seat A-4N Skyhawk. Pilot succesfully ejected.

[@RoadWarrior07744]

+tim H the other F15 was not hit is such a bad way, the other F15 landed in in one piece , he is the one who was filming the damaged F15.

[@arusinov]

No. There were no other F-15 involved: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision

[@RoadWarrior07744]

Alexander Rusinov ok the other fighter was an A-4 Skyhawk. but I read a totally different story long time ago', what is for sure the Israeli pilots are considered to be the best in the world, that was a training accident . not an actual combat

[@J0Etj]

So, "the best pilots in the world", have crashed in a training exercise ? Doesn't seem the best to me.

[@NiSiochainGanSaoirse]

Can anyone with enough knowledge please explain to me how physics allow a plane to fly with just one wing? Is it because of the tail being sufficiently strong to create enough lift to allow it to maintain stability? Or is it the thrust from the jet engine overpowering the need for lift from the wings and powering through the air? I’m baffled. Hold on, the pilot is just explaining how it kept flying. This is fascinating!

[@caimanaraujo479]

The thrust of the plane's engine works as a rocket. It throws material behind, which makes the plane go foward. Do it with enough material, and the force foward becomes stronger than gravity, so ot stays level. The wing left is helping, keeping the plane lighter, but probably making it less stable, as the plane stops being symmetrical. The thrust counter-balances that, specially if he was splitting throttle, keeping it balanced enough for it to fly without spinning.

[@5ch4cht3l7]

@@caimanaraujo479 That's not the main point. The engine only creates lift if it is pointed down (Nose of the plane up). There are many things that helped the plane: 1. High lift - the plane can carry high amounts of fuel and payload, meaning that if it's empty, there is more headroom 2. The body is pretty flat and wide - that way, the plane body will also create lift that is directly on the center of mass 3. Good maneuverability - big control surfaces in the rear help immensely in stabilizing the plane with uneven lift. They have to counteract the rotation that would be started by the uneven lift 4. And yes, high thrust helps too since you can fly at higher level of attack and with higher drag

[@frostcodm7555]

The F-15 has a more robust frame and a more rectangular shaped one

[@mjhudson98]

A high school classmate was an F18 pilot. In the 1st Gulf War his nose cone came off, busted the glass canopy. He had a broken wrist, collapsed lung and glass in 1 eye. Landed on the Eisenhower safely. He went on to pilot 1 Space Shuttle mission.

[@SamOfChristendom]

That was getting so interesting about the MIG at the end and it ended!

[@Lunk42]

Yeah I was sad too when it came to an abrupt end.

[@steve390gold]

it would easily blow the mig out of the sky just as easily as a single f22 can blow a wing of f15s out of the sky.... technology's pace is relentless.

[@hegisaputra4216]

hopY6

[@StrelitziaLiveries]

Russian planes are supirior of american planes 2 peices of rock the size of a thumb can kill an american plane

[@rich-qk7dc]

Unfortunately for you this fighter is 105 to 0. any explanation why this jet has taken out 105 Russian jets and not one has been shot down? fool

[@sdnative2387]

Thank you McDonnell Douglas. Note there were no computer aided flying instruments back then.

[@Agm1995gamer]

You can't really say. After a new aircraft lands in israel it is being almost completely overhauled by the airforce. The main fuselage might be the only thing that stays the same.

[@tooitchy]

The F15 has so much thrust, it's exactly like he said, it can act as a rocket, not just a plane. That's utterly insane

[@k9sarretired]

Love all those who say this is fake because it's impossible to fly on 1 wing. The entire plane is a lifting surface, per design. Extra stability with dual tail. With only 1 wing, you basically have a narrower plane with an offset engine and it's well known that you don't have to be symmetrically configured as long as you can laterally compensate for the unbalanced drag.

[@benjamindutschmann3222]

The first thing I thought when the airplane landed: the eagle has landed.

[@MrBamboozler.]

Some dude out for a smoke just received about 750 gallons of jet fuel

[@RoadWarrior07744]

I would think that the F15 was such a Huge success, they can easily manufacture a stealth version the F22 was built on the same concept as the F15, just with new modifications to today's technology

[@randy0210]

And 3 times more expensive :)

[@virgilio6349]

F15 ACTIVE is what you're looking for ;)

[@RoadWarrior07744]

the F15 is probably one of the best jet fighters ever built but you should know that the Israeli version of the F16i and the F15i are totally different . the Israeli IAI has modified those 2 fighter jets many hundreds of times over.

[@valenrn8657]

@@virgilio6349 Need to combine F-15 Active with F-15 Silent Eagle .

[@sgtwardaddy9889]

This reminds me of Solo Wing Pixy for some odd reason.

[@keso_de_bola1750]

This is basically the inspiration for Solo Wing Pixy's origin story where he was able to fly his plane with just one wing.

[@mikeserot1410]

Talk about a miracle! Those two were extremely fortunate to have survived and it proved how durable the F-15 is!

[@not_a_therapist]

Forget balls of steel, this guy has balls of *Platinum-Titanium Alloy!*