Mid Air Collision

[Spr.Earl]

This Pilot has horse shoes or is the best Pilot in the world.

http://www.whoisthemonkey.com:80/videos/31f15-flying-with-1-wing

 

[SupersonicMax]

This Pilot has horse shoes or is the best Pilot in the world.

http://www.whoisthemonkey.com:80/videos/31f15-flying-with-1-wing

Or the plane has Fly By Wire and Auto-Trim

 

[tree hugger]

If I were him I would have headed to the closest 7/11 to buy a lotto ticket.

Wow!

 

[Good2Golf]

Or the plane has Fly By Wire and Auto-Trim

The F-15 has a rate-based automated flight control system, meaning it provides whatever input(s) from a variety of control surfaces as necessary to achieve a desired output (in this case, zero roll rate).  In contrast, a rule-based (or fixed-mapping) system would assume that, for example, X amount of aileron displacement would give Y degrees of roll, and would not be able to adapt to the situation to over-ride the fixed input mapping.  The Eagle's AFCS just kept on feeding in positive angle-of-attack on the starboard stabilator until it was able to offset the negative roll moment induced by the missing wing.

That in no way is meant to diminish the acknowledgement of the cajones that the pilot had in conducting a good controllability check and screaming in over the threshold at close to 300 knots!

G2G

 

[SupersonicMax]

That in no way is meant to diminish the acknowledgement of the cajones that the pilot had in conducting a good controllability check and screaming in over the threshold at close to 300 knots!

It sure takes amazing skills to do that, but let's say the computer helped a bit!

Max

 

[Loachman]

If I were him I would have headed to the closest 7/11 to buy a lotto ticket.

Not me. After each of my close calls, I figured that I'd pushed it enough for the day.