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Added: For those of you who are saying lucky and giving lengthy explanations, look at the question. Person only wanted to know if it was "possible in an emergency". Wasn't specific to type of aircraft, etc. So answer is yes. And nice job to the toolbox who just answered question with my answer AFTER if posted mine.|||that Was a totally AWESOME video, I was in the military for thirty years and I would not have thought this possible in a million years. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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|||No not possible.|||No. You can fly with working engine(s) on one wing but not if the other wing is missing. With one wing the plane would spiral and plummet.|||One engine yes (ETOPS regulations), one missing wing no.|||Not a chance. Aircraft have flown with parts of a wing missing, but any loss more than a third of the span would be lethal.|||It won't necessarily spiral directly into the ground, but the pilot isn't going to have the amount of control necessary to actually 'fly' the plane properly. He might be able to slow the rate of descent to impact less rapidly, but you won't enjoy the landing...if you live through it!|||The whole mechanism of flight is to have a balance uplift distributed evenly between two wings. The moment one wing is lost the plane will topple over and it will drop like a rock from the sky.|||A single engine airplane, if it lost one complete wing, would not necessarily spin to the ground. The still attached wing could act as a big vertical stabilizer causing the airplane to plummet sideways to the ground. At any rate, all of the above is true. I hope you never get to experience that yourself.|||No, Its not possible to fly a one winged plane unless you are lucky....|||There is a balence between the two wings. It's kind of like a scale you have to weights on both sides weighing the same and it will balence take one of those weights off and the other side goes down. The plane will crash, but not make a complete spiral into the ground. Also, with one wing gone there isn't enough lift to hold the plane in the air anymore.|||no|||Not possible to "fly" with one wing only. Thats like taking off the 2 right tires on your car and driving on a racetrack. The F-15 vid is amazing, but the pilot was the luckiest man on earth. In terms of survivability, yes it happened.|||No|||The Israeli F-15 was able to land due to the design of the aircraft, not luck. MD wasn't even aware the aircraft had this ability until it happened. The body of the F-15 is a lifting body. The pilot wasn't even aware the wing was missing until he landed, according to the interview I saw. Knew he had a problem, of course, but not enough of a problem to eject. Lifting body aircraft are nothing new, as NASA played with them in the 60s. I saw a couple of them in the Mojave. Very weird looking machines, but they did fly, more or less.|||Here's your full answer:
Logically, and aerodynamically, it is not possible, as the force differential between the two wings (or one wing, and lack of the other wing) would put the plane into a roll that cannot be recovered from.
The F-15 scenario, which resulted from a mid-air collision, is truly unique. Even McDonell Douglas thought it was impossible, and the wing was sheared off on the ground in some taxi-ing accident, but combat footage proved otherwise, as did all the eyewitness accounts. And since then MD engineer did countless simulations. Their conclusion was that the huge rear horizontal stabilizer, combined with the lifting body design, managed to keep the jet in the air. If I recall correctly, the pilot did roll a couple times, but managed to stabilize the craft before he lost too much altitude. So it's a once-in-a-lifetime occurance, don't count on it.|||Actually you can and it is shown by of all things an Isreali F-15 fighter jet that had his wing clipped and severed off by another fighter in an excercise.
Check it out.....This was on the History channel and is a true and factual story.|||Not a chance|||A normal aircraft would not be able to fly on one wing. A fighter jet has the possibility to do so, however keep in mind that fighters are designed much different then normal airplanes. The F-15 in that video was basically flying like a rocket, not an airplane.
A NORMAL airplane, if one wing is lost, will either spiral to the ground, or brake of in mid-air.|||true the F-15 did do it but only becasue it has like a 2 to 1 thrust to weight ratio. this is why the F-15 holds the record of fastest vertical climb (to 500,000 FT) for an aircraft. any F-15 pilot will tell you its like being strapped to a rocket when you go full AB. I have seen first had the take off then it goes vertical at the end of the runway and with in a few seconds its gone from sight. I have heard talk that the A-10 can fly on only one wing but true or not I really dont know. as I only seen the F-15 one to be factual with proof.
so besides that the answer is no its not possible if you watch old WWII film footage of aircraft getting a whole wing shot off at the fusealage. the aircraft spins out and straight to the ground. most likely the same would happen to most aircraft today.|||There were airplanes that were designed asymmetrical but if it was designed like conventional aircraft the answer would be no - cant fly no way.|||airplane with one wing becomes spiraling rock or rocket depending on amount of thrust the engine is producing.|||Nope as the plane would unbalence and the airplane would fall and plumet to the ground!
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