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Interestingly there are lots of 'unusual' flight modes that actually stay aloft, especially if you are able to throttle up/down and move actuators very fast (ie. 10 Hz). I could totally imagine some existing planes being able to do some.

Quadcopter and drone hobbyists demo them sometimes. Eg. https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/your-quadcopter-has-three-pr...

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Interesting indeed. There was an Israeli pilot who managed to land an F-15 with a single wing [0]. That was considered impossible by then.

I couldn't find a link, but I think that, more recently, they were trying to reproduce the feat using the possibilities offered by automation. That would be a desirable feature in military aircraft indeed. However, I'm not sure whether that would be physically possible in airliners. The lift provided by the fuselage is too little.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision

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