In case you're wondering how planes fly without vertical fins....

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Originally Posted by engarde

We've all seen it. Done it. Flown it.

A stunningly effective, highly satisfying gunnery run on an aircraft shears off its vertical stab.

Yet it still flies, albeit slightly sideways.

And refuses to go down.

Flight model failure?

Actually an IAF F15 landed without the starboard wing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7PBHawwpeM

Must have been a FM bug too, lol.