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2008-06-18 Science & Technology

Rockwell Collins Controls And Lands Wing-Damaged UAV

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Posted by 3dc 2008-06-18 01:16|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 In addition for helping UAVs, such a system might be very helpful in bringing home a wounded pilot in a damaged aircraft.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-18 10:01|| 2008-06-18 10:01|| Front Page Top

#2 The UAV equivalent of a B-17.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-06-18 11:12|| 2008-06-18 11:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Show me a pilot that could stay in the air with 60% of his wing gone, let alone land the bastard...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-06-18 13:22|| 2008-06-18 13:22|| Front Page Top

#4 IIRC, there was a video a few months ago of an Israeli pilot who landed an F-15 with most of one wing gone. He knew he had been damaged in a midair collision, but didn't realize how badly the plane was hurt. He said that if he had known how bad the damage was, he would have ejected immediately.
So it can be done. Just not easily.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-18 13:28|| 2008-06-18 13:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Mojo - I'll tell you one set of pilots that could stay in the air with 60% gone: A-10 Drivers.

Hawg Pilots and their rides are tougher than hell, and are the last "stick and rudder" combat pilots left in the USAF.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-18 13:55|| 2008-06-18 13:55|| Front Page Top

#6 See REDDIT > SARAH CONNER HAS FINALLY FAILED - THE BRITISH HAVE DEVELOPED/INVENTED [and Deployed] SKYNET [Satellites].

CORSICANT RISING > all we need next are EM TOWERS, FLOATING/LOW-ORBIT BATTLE STATIONS, and PAN-GLOBAL EM GRIDS.............. + BABE FROM "FIFTH ELEMENT" LEARNING TO USE A LIGHT-SABER [or Two]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-18 20:11|| 2008-06-18 20:11|| Front Page Top

#7 STAR TREK:ENTERPRISE Orion SLave Girls wid LIGHT SABERS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-18 20:12|| 2008-06-18 20:12|| Front Page Top

#8 wikipedia has this to say about Orion Slave Girls.
so .. but Light Sabers were not in the Star Trek Universe Joe....
Enlighten me.

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-18 20:48|| 2008-06-18 20:48|| Front Page Top

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