Posted on 11/15/2010 6:28:26 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Two Air Force pilots were killed when an RF-4C reconnaissance plane crashed into a mountain in North Jeolla Province on Friday during a low-altitude training mission. The Air Force is investigating whether the crash was due to mechanical problems or pilot error. The crash was the third one so far this year for the Air Force after F5 fighter jets crashed in March and June. The three crashes this year involved different aircraft, but all are more than 30 years old.
The RF-4C was produced in the U.S. in 1966, and the Air Force bought and recycled them in 1990s after the U.S. Forces Korea retired them in 1989. Spain bought the same reconnaissance aircraft at around the same time and retired them in 2002, but the Korean Air Force still operates 20 to monitor North Korea.
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With aircraft like the Predator and super-snooper-satellites, why do we need 45 year old, outdated and obsolete aircraft like the RF-4C for reconnaissance?
I believe these are South Korean ones they refer to.
The article is refering to the ROKAF
I must say, even today, I would like to see a Phantom streak by trailing the usual black smoke from those J-79’s.
Those were LOUD. Nothing holds a candle to them for sheer noise!
Ro-kay, Rorge.
“Those were LOUD. Nothing holds a candle to them for sheer noise!”
I lived less than half a mile from the end of a military runway in the early ‘80s (Millington, TN) and heard pretty much every type of aircraft any of the branches ever flew. But the single LOUDEST aircraft of them all has to be the AV-8B Harrier.
LOL! I might have to concede that when they were in hover mode!
Another plane that had unusually loud engines to me was the A-6. I think it was those exhausts that were angles slightly outwards. I stupidly stuck my head up one time as one of those went off the waist cat and I was in the catwalk. My headgear got turned sideways on my head...
In retrospect, I remember seeing everyone duck down, but I stood there like a rube not getting it. I’ll tell you, I never did THAT again.
No kidding...what a beautiful aircraft. It looks like a spaceship.
Some say it was just shy of being the first orbital aircraft that could reach space unassisted.
I bet with some current technology right now it could. Add some heat tiles and it could also do a re-entry.
And with a gatling gun!
“No kidding...what a beautiful aircraft. It looks like a spaceship.”
Unreal a brain, a slide rule and a #2 pencil.
I was Navy, also. Aboard Big John in ‘86. I was in an EA-6B squadron. BIG, loud, clumsy aircraft.
Loudest USAF AC was the A-37 in my experience. THAT was one loud futhrmukr ! F-4’s, U2’s (Also very loud on take off)....older versions of the KC-135’s before new engines were introduced were LOUD as well.
But the A-37 was it on the meter. It hurt folks not wearing their ears. Painful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_A-37_Dragonfly
I forgot about that loud little mother.
Heh, I was too in the Seventies...ahh, Palma!
No kidding! Those little ol Dragonfiles?
I always thought those were pretty cool planes, never saw one fly, but I do recall seeing a few at Oshkosh...:)
On the Big John, that is. I was on deck when that Tomcat went over the side in 1976...I was sleeping in the cockpit of my plane lined up next to the waist cat.
My plane shuddered violently, and I jerked up and looked back at the cat just in time to see the tail of the Tomcat disappear over the side with everyone running to the side.
Great way to put it!
Would you say Heavy metal headbanging kind of sheer noise?
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