To: F15Eagle; wordsofearnest
Yes, I’m a ground pounder, but a twin engine fighter losing everything is pretty odd. My guess would be complete electrical failure or one engine catastrophically failed and took the other out. The board will have its results soon enough.
I am glad he was able to avoid houses and the plant and still eject. he may be a Zoomie, but he is still a brother in arms.
As I said, I am glad he was able to miss structures as an F-15 crashing could have caused major damage. F-15s are not small planes. Knowing this, I saw one parked at an airshow next to a WWII B-24 bomber and was still shocked to see how big an F-15C is in comparison. Or maybe how little a B-25 is.
10 posted on
05/30/2007 12:16:44 PM PDT by
M1Tanker
(Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
To: M1Tanker
Could be contaminiated fuel as well.
12 posted on
05/30/2007 12:21:14 PM PDT by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: M1Tanker
F-15s are not small planes. Knowing this, I saw one parked at an airshow next to a WWII B-24 bomber and was still shocked to see how big an F-15C is in comparison. I had exactly the same impression the first time I saw an F-4 Phantom at an airshow. It was huge compared to an ME-109 and a P-51 Mustang that were there. I would like to have a time machine so I could show stuff like that to WW2 pilots flying little old Grumman F4F's.
19 posted on
05/30/2007 4:15:57 PM PDT by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: M1Tanker
I was amazed at how fast a B25 accelerates on takeoff...a zoomer for it’s size.
23 posted on
06/03/2007 11:58:50 PM PDT by
Atchafalaya
(When you are there thats the best)
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