LN F-15 down...
gotta wonder about that bit....more airframe fatigue issues coming to light??
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Originally Posted by connoisseur
Both crew out safely, last seen supping tea in nearby house
-Dazza
Mind you I do have a rather crumpled large print of High Ercall after WW2 with quite a few airframes on it....
Tsk tsk chaps....
......you're lagging a bit aren't you? Why has no-one posted a TAF or METAR for the area and time of the incident? You'd be drummed out of R&N for a failure like that.
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Originally Posted by 911Truth
On a positive note, that's one less killing machine to be used against innocent civilians that the US is in the practice of mistaking as 'Terrorists' or even 'Blue on Blue' mistaken Identity kills', one less out of the Rothschild's arsenal,
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That's the thing about 'democracy'...
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I thought 51 posts was a lot even for a squished Eagle. Then I saw the reason. Some small village somewhere missing its idiot.
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Hmm. BBC reports that the a/c flew on for "a good mile" following the ejection.
They make it sound as though it was trundling along by itself for hours rather than just descending less than vertically.
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They make it sound as though it was trundling along by itself for hours rather than just descending less than vertically.
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You clearly don't like the Armed Forces, so why are you even looking on a forum that
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West Coast, most, if not all of those F-14s are scrap now. The shredders and smelters worked overtime. For those to whom such things matter, the aircraft involved was the last F-15D delivered to the U.S.A.F.
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I'm glad the pilot got out safely!
@MadBob: After the Cold War ended, the German AF and Navy put one Tornado each into storage at AMARC. It was part of a trial to determine whether storing all the aircraft that were phased out at the time was a viable option.
However, although the preserved aircraft remained in very good condition and could easily be restored to flying status, all the various updates and small changes that the rest of the fleet had meanwhile went through rendered those two Tonkas useless, for all intents and purposes. Effectively, their only remaining use was as a source for spares, and this could be achieved without storing entire aircraft.
Interestingly, the French still put most of their withdrawn aircraft in storage at Châteaudun Air Base. Sorry for being off topic.
@MadBob: After the Cold War ended, the German AF and Navy put one Tornado each into storage at AMARC. It was part of a trial to determine whether storing all the aircraft that were phased out at the time was a viable option.
However, although the preserved aircraft remained in very good condition and could easily be restored to flying status, all the various updates and small changes that the rest of the fleet had meanwhile went through rendered those two Tonkas useless, for all intents and purposes. Effectively, their only remaining use was as a source for spares, and this could be achieved without storing entire aircraft.
Interestingly, the French still put most of their withdrawn aircraft in storage at Châteaudun Air Base. Sorry for being off topic.
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Originally Posted by 911Truth
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