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takeoff La-5 without a part of the wing and landing

 

 

 

 

 

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Haha, maybe this could become a new sport? 20 style points for the landing. Nice pirouettes.

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That was pretty impressive! I think a belly landing might have been smoother, maybe.

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Hmm, maybe right place for this video would be the bug thread. Can this be done with other planes?

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There are stories and pictures of planes landing with half a wing or even more missing, so I think calling this a bug might be a bit hastened. I don't expect it to be as easy with German fighters because of their higher wing loading.

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Where is the bug?

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He`s taking off, flying around and landing with half of his wing missing and other parts flying off the aircraft. I`m not an FM expert but it does seem a bit strange to me.

 

I know there are rare cases of planes landing with wing missing in real life. But I think most of the planes which lost a wing in flight came down crashing.

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:)  Probably should be called take-off and "landing".  Who need ailerons anyway.... amusing, thank you.

 

I suppose what rather preempts the realism argument is that no-one in their right mind would try to take off in an aircraft in that condition.

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This could be possible IRL I think but no real pilot would try unless they didn't have a chute.

 

There was an 15 that lost its wing and made a safe landing but the only reason he didn't eject was because there was a fuel leak hiding the damage.

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This could be possible IRL I think but no real pilot would try unless they didn't have a chute.

 

There was an 15 that lost its wing and made a safe landing but the only reason he didn't eject was because there was a fuel leak hiding the damage.

 

That one?

 

The F-15 has something the La-5 doesn't have: body lift. Like that you need very little extra wing:

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The Japanese Type 96 also flew rather well with "asymmetric" wings, this is a classic and I think has been shown before here, but I take an extract from:

 

Imperial Japanese Navy Aces 1937–45 by Henry Sakaida

 

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A nice book if you don't mind the encyclopedia style writing as well as the somewhat lazy proofreading.

 

Z

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From an aerodynamic/stability point of view it is possible if you have enough lift to maintain level flight and also have enough of a roll/yaw moment to keep horizontal flight. Ow I forgot you also need the biggest set of ball or a lack of brain cells

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