How much time do you have flying acrobatics in a jet?
I’ve got just shy of 3,000 hts in the A-10 and F-15E.
Not an Immelmann from what these old eyes can see.
“How much time do you have flying acrobatics in a jet?
I’ve got just shy of 3,000 hts in the A-10 and F-15E.
Not an Immelmann from what these old eyes can see.”
Then can you tell me what you call a turn to port ascending maybe a few hundred feet, because in my mind they didn’t have any room on takeoff, where the aircraft goes further than 90 degrees during the maneuver, and ends up going the opposite direction?
You don’t have to be a person that has flown jets to see and make an assumption on an accident. Even the NTSB uses non-flying experts in their system to investigate accidents. And as you know, they are the final word on those unless the AG considers the incident criminal and hands it off to the FBI. I was at Galena in 1985 when an F-16a went into the Yukon. The FAA, the NTSB, EOD, and the Coast Guard were all represented there. They were using my equipment with the sonar from Adack to find him and the main body of the aircraft. Most of the weapons had broken free and were stuck in the bank across the river.
Do I have time in a jet like a Warthog or an eagle? Nope. How much time do you have in a tutor? Especially one that was in trouble and wouldn’t, in my mind, have veered away from the other aircraft it was ascending with at that altitude unless it was.
I can only use the experience I have and have been trained to use in evaluation. Everything we do here is observation. Without what would have been on the radio, we don’t know a whole lot. If you have further information concerning the incident, would you please enter it on the board. It would help a lot of us.
rwood