Bomb hits tailplane on release

"Ian" wrote

We have a compilation video at work of "Store Release gone WRONG!" Makes
interesting viewing before we start doing release and jettison work.
Unfortunately it would be too large to email out of the office (and I
don't
think the security people would like it too much!)

Its made up mainly of Edwards/Eglin/Pax River stuff, but a few things from
RAF/RN are in it as well.....

As an ex-weapons troop, I'd *love* to see that.

Pete

"Pete" wrote in message
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"Ian" wrote

We have a compilation video at work of "Store Release gone WRONG!" Makes
interesting viewing before we start doing release and jettison work.
Unfortunately it would be too large to email out of the office (and I
don't
think the security people would like it too much!)

Its made up mainly of Edwards/Eglin/Pax River stuff, but a few things
from
RAF/RN are in it as well.....

As an ex-weapons troop, I'd *love* to see that.

I had a tac officer back in school who had done some work with the Airborne
Test Board at Bragg while he was assigned to the 27th Engineer Battalion
there. He showed us a video of similar nature which could be best titled as
"Heavy Drop and LAPES Gone Wrong". LAPES'd vehicles flipping over, LAPES'd
loads breaking apart, LAPES drops from a wee bit too high (prang!), and the
best one, a vehicle heavy drop (an M551 Sheridan IIRC) that saw first one
large chute fail, then a second failure, and then the remaining chute shred
and the vehicle hit hard enough to crater the DZ. Of course these happened
in the days before the Enviro-Nazis took control, requiring that every spilt
drop of fuel at a FARP or FLE location be carefully policed up and hauled
back to the hazardous waste disposal area...

Brooks


Pete

My favorite separation mishap story is of a flight test vertical dive
bomb release from an AD Skyraider by (IIRC) Douglas test pilot Bob
Rahn. The bomb, being slicker than the Spad, flew forward through the
prop and wiped it out. A maximum dive angle restriction for bomb
release became a permanent restriction in the flight manual.

Jim Thomas

On 23 Jun 2004 21:45:09 -0700, (Jim Thomas) wrote:

My favorite separation mishap story is of a flight test vertical dive
bomb release from an AD Skyraider by (IIRC) Douglas test pilot Bob
Rahn. The bomb, being slicker than the Spad, flew forward through the
prop and wiped it out. A maximum dive angle restriction for bomb
release became a permanent restriction in the flight manual.

Jim Thomas

The old SBD used a "trapeze" release to cure the same problem.

Al Minyard

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:06:31 -0500, Alan Minyard
wrote:

On 23 Jun 2004 21:45:09 -0700, (Jim Thomas) wrote:

My favorite separation mishap story is of a flight test vertical dive
bomb release from an AD Skyraider by (IIRC) Douglas test pilot Bob
Rahn. The bomb, being slicker than the Spad, flew forward through the
prop and wiped it out. A maximum dive angle restriction for bomb
release became a permanent restriction in the flight manual.

Jim Thomas

The old SBD used a "trapeze" release to cure the same problem.

Al Minyard

Also Stuka.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8