[extropy-chat] Fear of flying

[Mike Lorrey]

It's true. F-15s and F-16s generate 50% of their lift with their
fuselages, so the complete loss of one wing at the root is only a loss
of 25% of total lift, at most. I first saw this in a military exercise
in Alaska where an Eagle and a Falcon sheared off one of each others
wing at the root and both returned to base from 20+ miles away.

This photo shows one example: 
http://www.harry.hirschman.com/Aviation_Pages/Mil_Row-1.html of a
similar collision an Israeli air force f-15 suffered in an exercise
over the Negev desert flying against an A-7.

--- "kevinfreels.com" <kevin at kevinfreels.com> wrote:

> I somehow doubt that a jet with wings ripped off at the root would be
> able
> manage controlled flight back to base. As for the French plane, those
> jets
> barely even need a rudder. It's only function is to assist landing in
> a
> crosswind.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:55 AM
> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Fear of flying
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > --- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Kevin my father-in-law has a terrible fear of flying,
> > > specifically that the wings would come off in turbulence.  I
> > > launched into a big pontification on how they are stress
> > > tested, inspected, planes never have structural failure
> > > in flight, bla bla and yakkity yak.  About a week later
> > > the tail fell off that French plane causing it to punch
> > > a deep hole into the earth.  He has not flown since.
> >
> > You should show him photos of air force fighters that have shorn
> off
> > their wings at the roots in midair collisions but still flown back
> to
> > base and landed.... hey, that French plane lost its rudder but
> still
> > flew back to the airport. That's a glass half full in my opinion...
> >
> > Mike Lorrey
> > Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
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> >
> >
> >
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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