Posted on 10/13/2018 5:40:05 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
Sitting in the ruined airplane hangars of Tyndall Air Force Base, which was shredded on Wednesday when Hurricane Michael swept across the Florida Panhandle, may be some of the Air Force’s most advanced — and most expensive — stealth fighter jets.
Tyndall is home to 55 F-22 stealth fighters, which cost a dizzying $339 million each. Before the storm, the Air Force sent at least 33 of the fighters to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
Air Force officials have not disclosed the whereabouts of the remaining 22 planes, other than to say that a number of aircraft were left at the base because of maintenance or safety reasons.
An Air Force spokeswoman, Maj. Malinda Singleton, would not confirm that any of the aircraft left behind were F-22s.
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Airplanes FLY.
They go fast.
Who the hell is in charge of the USAF, these days..?
Trannies..?
Just wow.
De wing them and ship them on trucks or railroad cars.
Couldn’t they have brought in C5’s to haul them out of there?
Those planes are too expensive to leave behind in decrepit hangars, or to have so many in unflyable condition.
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“Airplanes FLY.”
And most creepers don’t read past the headline and never wait for the facts.
Oops!
Not every aircraft is rated flight-worthy. Could be they were grounded for maintenance or not enough qualified pilots to fly them out. Or places prepared to accept them. Possibly they are safe and sound under reinforced hanger roofs at Tyndall. If any were damaged...would we even hear about it???
It’s SOP to fly planes to other bases when a hurricane is coming. It would be hard to believe that didn’t happen here.
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=tyndall%20f-22&src=typd
There are pics on Twitter including pictures of F-22’s through the roof of a hangar that was blown off.
Most Creepers,,,,
That is a Typo,
Correct?
Lots easier to fly them out in a hurry. The one’s not flyable for maintenance is another story.
All but 5 were flown to Texas or Ohio.
Those 5 were not flyable but probably not damaged beyond repair.
There’s a youtube video taken from a helicopter overflight of the area...you can see the damaged aircraft through the huge holes in the hangers roofs. One of the display jets was flipped over. Devastating damage.
Somebody posted a drone video that had an overflight of the flightline/hangar area. There appeared to be at least 1 hangar that had the roof partially torn off and what appeared to be several aircraft inside. The ones that were most visible did not appear to be F-22’s although there were others that were partially obstructed by debris.
While watching videos of Tyndall on TV, there were several obsolete F 16’s with dayglow orange wingtips and tails that were under roof debris. These are drones that will be used for live fire practics by F 22’s and Eglin AFB F35’s out in the live range way out over the Gulf.
I once saw 3 target F16 drones flying out over the Panama City ship channel toward the Gulf followed a couple of F22’s following behind them about two minutes later. A sight to see.
Would be magnificent F22 gun camera action to see.
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