Photo Gallery of the Day: USN F/A-18 Super Hornet jet fighter blows tires, but everybody's OK

ARC Air Discussion Forums ^ | November 12, 2006 | CRASCA

[EnjoyingLife]

". . . After performing the usual impressive Demo, the Superhornet came in to land. Almost immediately upon touching down there was a loud "BANG" - he blew a tire. He got the jet slowed down and held it in the runway until the other tire gave way, then she broke loose. The back end came around, and you could see him fighting it and adjusting into it as much as possible, but things progressed and the plane spun around. He did almost a complete 360, then the tail end went off the runway and into the dirt. The stabs dug in, the nose lifted up, and for a moment things looked as if the jet would flip over backwards. . . ."

Photo gallery link: http://s102164210.onlinehome.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=103388

[EnjoyingLife]

Here's a video of the F-18 Super Hornet accident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66K8WXQvb90

Link found at Carmichael's Position, in a worth-reading blog post titled "Pucker Factor!" (21 November 2006), http://johncarmichaels.typepad.com/carmichaels_position/2006/11/pucker_factor.html

[dcrider182]

Bump for later watching!
~D

[madison10]

Ouch.

[macmedic892]

Okay, I've seen the pictures and the YouTube video and I can only have two comments:

Pucker Factor!
and
Damn that's a funny way to park a plane!

[EnjoyingLife]

Here's a photo sequence of the F/A-18F Super Hornet tire blowout shot by another photographer starting at "Reply #36 on: November 11, 2006, 06:02:08 PM" thru Reply #38 (all by "Lin"): http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index.php/topic,4587.30.html

[raybbr]

Thanks. Those are amazing photos.

[EnjoyingLife]

"Recovery of B-1B 'SLIP 57'" after landing with its wheels up at Diego Garcia on 8 May 2006: http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html

Nice non-accident B-1, B-2, and B-52 photos here: http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers3.html