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Boeing jet loses parts of the wing in flight!
SeanB:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on February 21, 2024, 08:54:34 pm ---I'm surprised Boeing haven't tried buying Airbus yet. :popcorn:
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Pesky laws about monopolies.........
MT:
SiliconWizard:
Right, that's not the way it would happen.
They would not buy the whole Airbus group. Maybe just a key company from the group that would get them some technology/patents they don't have, to bring them some edge back and leave Airbus in a more difficult position.
Maybe they could manage to pull some strings to trigger the acquisition.
Any resemblance to actual events would be purely coincidental.
Alex Eisenhut:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 21, 2024, 06:41:43 pm ---F15 loses entire wing - and lands safely, albeit a little "hot".
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Sure but there you have a 2:1 engine:human ratio...
hans:
--- Quote from: gabiz_ro on February 21, 2024, 06:28:43 pm ---If no frost forming it may be OK I may be wrong but that part is for some kind of ice removing, don't know term in english
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deicing boots
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This is the slat of the wing, which is part of the flap system to allow the plane to fly slower. Slats are the first flap setting to extend, as they generate significant lift with minor drag increase. For (many) Boeing airplanes this is usually the first flap settings (often denoted as 1 or 5). The back of the wing contains the extendable airfoils we typically call flaps, which in (many) Boeing airplanes will extend at e.g. flaps 10, 15, up to 40. Its obviously not nice to see such a defect on a piece of airfoil.. then again if a plane has a hydraulic problem, they may have to fly and land without any flaps at all. Its possible to do that safely but it restricts runway allocations and has more wear&tear on brakes, tyres, etc.
So this problem on its own is not that dangerous, certainly not as dangerous as a door flying off.. then again if a pilot decides to push the plane towards the edge of its flight envelope then maybe you could get in some unexpectedly early nasty stalls (which in a Boeing usually means a rollover plunge to the ground). But I doubt any airline pilot would ever knowingly do that.
I don't see an airliner is going to fly with only 1 wing. Jet fighters use delta wings which can handle much extremer AOA before stalling. The wings on a typical plane/airliner simply don't allow for such extreme air aerobatics to handle such imbalance, as a 10-20degree pitch up would already drastically offset its stall speed.
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