Incident or deliberate spin drop?
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Incident or deliberate spin drop?
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I was just browsing youtube videos and came across this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7x_FBg__0Y
Most of it is just junk, but number two in the sequence looks intriguing. What do you think? Was it deliberate or was this a miracle saving from the pilot's side? I have seen some airshows but never that kind of acrobatics before, but then again I'm not a military person. Maybe someone here knows more about that day; pilot with/without brown pants etc..
(I almost had to change just by looking at it. Geez, some people! LOL)
I was just browsing youtube videos and came across this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7x_FBg__0Y
Most of it is just junk, but number two in the sequence looks intriguing. What do you think? Was it deliberate or was this a miracle saving from the pilot's side? I have seen some airshows but never that kind of acrobatics before, but then again I'm not a military person. Maybe someone here knows more about that day; pilot with/without brown pants etc..
(I almost had to change just by looking at it. Geez, some people! LOL)
See following thread from 2005.
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...call-riat.html
The Pilot re-flew the display a few hours later. Video from inside RAF Fairford.
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...call-riat.html
The Pilot re-flew the display a few hours later. Video from inside RAF Fairford.
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That looks so familiar - he almost repeated what a certain Col Jerry Cadick - USMC F/A-18 pilot did at MCAS El Toro did in 1988.
I drove past the remains of that aircraft, sitting on a trailer in front of his squadron's hangar, for months (I was on duty at my maintenance squadron the day of the airshow, and heard all the crash trucks scrambling).
He was supposed to roll back 90 degrees from inverted at the top of his half-loop, but because of the distraction of the a$$-hat controller* he failed to roll before pulling back on his stick.
He suffered multiple broken bones in his face and neck and other injuries, but recovered sufficiently to make his "retirement flight" a few months later.
After Air Show Crash, O.C. Pilot Soaring Again - Los Angeles Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCnK4kh65U
* that's my interpretation - however he might also have been distracted by having lost more airspeed than expected.
I drove past the remains of that aircraft, sitting on a trailer in front of his squadron's hangar, for months (I was on duty at my maintenance squadron the day of the airshow, and heard all the crash trucks scrambling).
He was supposed to roll back 90 degrees from inverted at the top of his half-loop, but because of the distraction of the a$$-hat controller* he failed to roll before pulling back on his stick.
He suffered multiple broken bones in his face and neck and other injuries, but recovered sufficiently to make his "retirement flight" a few months later.
After Air Show Crash, O.C. Pilot Soaring Again - Los Angeles Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCnK4kh65U
* that's my interpretation - however he might also have been distracted by having lost more airspeed than expected.
