F22 Raptor crash @ NELLIS AFB

12/20/04 | me

[gc4nra]

Just heard on the news that he was taken to a local hospital for evaluation, but appeared to be OK.

[BurbankKarl]

Jessica Biel at F/A 37 Talon pilot?

[Gunrunner2]

Time to pee in a bottle.

[Bogey78O]

When I first saw that plane I knew it wasn't real because of the hot chick sitting in the pilot's seat.

[BladeLWS]

Boot Hill that crash happened back in 92', they fixed the problem since then. This is something different, there have been test flights of the F/A-22 for the past decade, and this is only the second crash. Something went wrong that hasn't happened before.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"This happens during testing so that it doesn't happen when it hits production. It is part of R&D."

Less likely anyways. Planes crash, always have, always will. It is too early to conjecture what the cause of this mishap was, design, maint, or pilot. Losing aircraft and test pilots is simply an unfortunate part of the process. Things are safer now, but the danger will always be there for this kind of thing. Sounds like he got out, thats the important thing.

[Gunrunner2]

Oh wow. . .now isn't that a politically-correct diversity photo of the century.

[konaice]

Hope the pilot is OK, but isn't that a quarter billion dollar plane?

Debug it now or debug it later in combat.....

[FireTrack]

I heard it crashed on takeoff.

[Boot Hill]

"...they fixed the problem since then."

LOL, made an adjustment to the pilot, did they?

--Boot Hill

[Cobra64]

1.2 billion dollars of our tax money down the drain!

Y'all might want to take an economics class, and work in the private manufacturing sector.

[BladeLWS]

I guess you could say that ;)

[PoorMuttly]

But I already have a NAME for it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

If the ejection lasts more than 4 hours, seek medical assistance... like a pretty nurse.

[Rebelbase]

Those are not US Pilots. Note, no codpieces. :-)

[shaggy eel]

,,, as it happens, that was the very one Santa had earmarked for you Muttly. It's now in a heavily modified state. A Raptor is still a Raptor (ho-ho-ho!!).

[SolutionsOnly]

No kidding, that photo is one major PC gag!

[xcamel]

WTF is that??

Cousin Mark "punky" B is an F/A 22 Pilot for the USMC - was the top AV-8B pilot before transitioning when it was still the X22

[crazyhorse691]

I heard it crashed on takeoff.

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Something as simple as a seagull sucked into an engine would do it. Or an anitwar protester.

[BladeLWS]

These engines are designed to take a bird and still fly. But if a bird took out an engine, there is still another engine to keep it flying.