"Larry D. Cosby" lcosby at knology dot net wrote in message
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| I can't decide.
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| Did this really happen?
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| Or is it doctored?
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| Too much important stuff happens off screen, and the landing
| doesn't look real
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| This incident is fake, however Rockwell Collins is currently working on
this
| very subject. The following link has a video showing an F-18 scale model
| flying with 60 % of the wing missing.
| http://www.rockwellcollins.com/news/...tolerance.html
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Back in the mid to late 70s, there was a story published nationally, I
believe in Flying Magazine. IIRC, an instructor in a 150 survived a mid air
after loosing all the wing past the strut.

I think he found himself in a dive immediately after impact, and had to
maintain something like 140 knots with almost full control deflection, to
keep the wings level back to the airport. I don't recall him actually being
in the pattern when the accident took place, but he was at least close
enough to make the runway at 140 knots.