• Fighter Jet Crashes at Airshow at Alberta Airport
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looks like he brought the nose up too far while attempting to do one of those flashy sudden climb stunts. this kinda shit happens once or twice every year. though thankfully he managed to eject safely and not have the plane plow into a crowd of people.
[QUOTE=teh pirate;23580529]uh there's only one Century Hornet, if that one crashed they'd have said so[/QUOTE] He meant stalling. :downs:
[QUOTE=Tac Error;23579249] At least we won't have another repeat of what the Trudeau government did to the Canadian Forces.[/QUOTE] Which is what? He put tons of money into the military. What does this have to do with the article?
I live in Lethbridge, that CF-18 and another woke me up 2 days in a row by flying over my house. I'm just glad they didn't wake me up by crashing into my house :ohdear:
He ejected upside down almost. Can you imagine how scary that shit is? Getting launched straight to the ground hoping the thrusters right you out of the way of the plane.
Now THIS is news worthy.
[QUOTE=laval;23581458]Which is what? He put tons of money into the military. What does this have to do with the article?[/QUOTE] Not to completely derail the thread, but Trudeau cut our already small commitment in West Germany to half its strength. Instead of standing with the British Army in Northern Germany as an active part of NATO, he put what remained of our guys into a token reserve force in Southern Germany. In the early 1970s he let much of our equipment to age until the rest of NATO pressured Canada to purchase some semi-decent equipment that was put into service in the 1980s. You couldn't believe how bad our capabilities eroded to. CBC had a feature on it back in the 1980s. [url]http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/defence/clips/10400/[/url] I may disagree with a lot of the Conservative government's policies, but at least they purchased Leopard 2 MBTs to replace our aging Leopard 1s and announced the recent JSF purchase among other things.
Looks like he lost thrust in the right engine. The exhaust nozzle is (as if it was powered down) closed and there is no fire coming out of it when it hits the ground like the left engine which suggests there was no gas flowing though it at the time. He was probably going through an engine failure leading to a sudden stall, starts to roll, warning lights going off, the best thing to do would be punch out.
[QUOTE=OvB;23583147]Looks like he lost thrust in the right engine. The exhaust nozzle is (as if it was powered down) closed and there is no fire coming out of it when it hits the ground like the left engine which suggests there was no gas flowing though it at the time. He was probably going through an engine failure leading to a sudden stall, starts to roll, warning lights going off, the best thing to do would be punch out.[/QUOTE] CF-18s don't have the greatest mechanical performance records, but usually they're moving fast enough to recover from things like engine failures. In a low-altitude controlled stall, an engine failure would normally be fatal. This guy has amazing reflexes. I just hope he didn't lose them in ejection shock. :ohdear: I'm no flight analyst but his right engine probably overheated and he shut it down (if it just failed randomly the nozzles would still be wide) and tried to pull out of his stall.
[QUOTE=HellBring;23580708][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEjDVjQfEKI[/media] I'm confused as to why it suddenly stalled.[/QUOTE] Because the only thing keeping the aircraft in the air right there was the amount of thrust he was applying, and at such low speeds the control surfaces have far less effect at controlling the plane. He was struggling to keep it level before he even started pitching the nose up, and while doing that he was slowing down more and more, I doubt even if he had kept it level, at that low of an altitude, that he could have saved it anyway he slowed down so much, unless the plane had little fuel in it, making it lighter, and judging by the fireball... Nope
Don't get my wrong I'm glad hes okay, but i think the fact that Canada is getting F-35s( :swoon:) should be news worthy as well
those pictures look like a fucking michael bay movie. what's in the fuel of these jets that can cause towering explosions like that? that has to be at least 100 feet tall
Kerosene. And lots of it.
[QUOTE=sulokadabi;23588436]Don't get my wrong I'm glad hes okay, but i think the fact that Canada is getting F-35s( :swoon:) should be news worthy as well[/QUOTE] I think there was a thread on that.
[QUOTE=TheHydra;23588529]those pictures look like a fucking michael bay movie. what's in the fuel of these jets that can cause towering explosions like that? that has to be at least 100 feet tall[/QUOTE] Think about this. All that fuel has the capability to power a fighter jet at supersonic speeds for hours. That is a lot of potential energy. What happens if all that energy was discharged at once? Big fireball.
[QUOTE=OogalaBoogal;23577876] [IMG]http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/3316236.bin?size=620x400[/IMG][/QUOTE] [B]"Aw fuck! What did I do?" [/B]
[QUOTE=binkow;23589713][B]"Aw fuck! What did I do?" [/B][/QUOTE] Pull hard on the left hand cord. VERY hard.
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