Originally Posted by
Courtney Mil
Including the overrun, that is an 11,000 foot runway, with cables. It’s a hard “mishap” to explain.
I'm leaning to brake failure - would not be noticed until it was needed and maybe failed too late to TOGO and try any cables. Possibly an anti-lock falsely detecting a wheel has locked up and keeping the plane going straight.
Had something like that happen in a car. Hit the brakes and a 2 inch section designed as an unobservable salt trap blew out. Only place where the line could not be seen along the frame rail. Unlike the F-15 I had a manual transmission and a parking brake.
AFAIK F-15 don't have thrust reversers. I did some very slight work on the thrust reverser/vector nozzle experimental F-15 data analysis. Mainly looked at it and wondered why anyone would want to given the complexity and weight burden. Same one got canards.