Mishap at Red Flag 18-1 at Nellis?
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See: https://theaviationist.com/2013/01/2...-first-flight/
Last edited by Airbubba; 1st Feb 2018 at 00:13.
It was at Calverton on Long Island in New York after a test hop in the local area.
See: https://theaviationist.com/2013/01/2...-first-flight/
See: https://theaviationist.com/2013/01/2...-first-flight/
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No chastening intended!
There's an AWST video that includes an interview with one of the Grumman test pilots on the aircraft. He said that when his chute opened, he looked straight down at the (close and rapidly getting closer) fireball. The only thing that kept him out of it was the rising thermal effect of the heat.
This was just the second flight of the program.
There's an AWST video that includes an interview with one of the Grumman test pilots on the aircraft. He said that when his chute opened, he looked straight down at the (close and rapidly getting closer) fireball. The only thing that kept him out of it was the rising thermal effect of the heat.
This was just the second flight of the program.
The F-14 crash on the second flight of the program got me thinking, what other military programs have had incidents/losses on first flight or very early in the program?
-Hughes XF-11- first flight (largely due to Hughes being stupid)
-Northrop XP-79- first flight fatal, program cancelled.
-F-16, damaged on high speed taxi test- aborted to airborne, became first flight.
-Dh110. Guess that was a bit after first flight, not sure how many flights it had undertaken.
Others?
-Hughes XF-11- first flight (largely due to Hughes being stupid)
-Northrop XP-79- first flight fatal, program cancelled.
-F-16, damaged on high speed taxi test- aborted to airborne, became first flight.
-Dh110. Guess that was a bit after first flight, not sure how many flights it had undertaken.
Others?
