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Nathan Gilliatt wrote:
many airline passengers get to watch unmanned tactical jets roll/bounce/tumble (whatever it in fact did) by as they wait for departure. On the way to Seattle we made an emergency landing at Sacramento after the pilot mentioned a small fire in the cockpit. Fire trucks followed us to the terminal. A few minutes later the pilot tells us fire seems to be out and we taxi to the departure end of the runway. A couple NG fighters took off and, while we watched, one of them flamed out (I guess) and went through the fence. No idea what happened to the pilot. Fire trucks follow NG fighter to fence area. Not really that dramatic but the most fire trucks I've ever seen running loose at an airport. |
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Nathon
One news report you listed said that pilot did not separate from seat and landed in it and ended up with a few scrapes and bruises. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Chute won't open until after you separate from seat as you are sitting against it in a back pack and you are strapped in the seat with shoulder and lap belts. Until you separate from seat the chute won't/can't open. One picture showed the left rudder and up along the port side of the fuselage and most of the port wing. There was no obvious damage to the wing or rudder from a ground impact if bird had rolled as summarized by reporter???? Again, as Casey said. Lots of Monday morning quarterbacks and report will never be released so we will never know unless someone in the Sq talks to his bed mate or a friend ) Big John On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:11:46 GMT, Nathan Gilliatt wrote: In article , Big John wrote: They don't normally report the cause of an accident unless it causes some civilian damage which this one didn't. No damage, but a close call. The plane ended up about 250 feet from a passenger terminal, having passed near passenger jets on the ramp along the way. The newspaper had a diagram that showed the airplane beginning along runway 23L, the pilot ejecting as he passed taxiway charlie, and the plane skidding across taxiway alpha and a corner of the terminal A ramp before ending up past the end of the ramp. Kind of a busy area. Most GA traffic uses that side of the airport, too. It's a little higher profile than the typical military mishap. Not too many airline passengers get to watch unmanned tactical jets roll/bounce/tumble (whatever it in fact did) by as they wait for departure. I guess we'll see if that leads the Navy to release any information from the investigation. Here are a couple more local media links: Jet crashes at RDU (Saturday 3/27) http://www.newsobserver.com/news/sto...-3071734c.html Cause of crash at RDU unclear (Sunday 3/28) http://www.newsandobserver.com/front...-3073838c.html - Nathan |
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BTIZ wrote:
pilot realizing engine is about to come apart and aircraft is not responding to braking decides to use his e-ticket ride coupon.. The article at: http://www.newsandobserver.com/front...-3073838c.html has at the end: Commercial pilots can raise their landing gear to stop in an emergency, he said. "It's not pleasant, but it works," he said. No squat switch on airliners? Yes squat switch on F-18? - Andrew |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 at 02:33:50 in message
, Tom Hyslip wrote: An F-18 Naval Strike Fighter crashed at RDU today. It appears it was taxing or in the process of taking off, but never lifted off. Might have been wake turbulance from another F-18 that had just departed. http://www.wral.com/news/2953163/detail.html Please don't post any more URLs from a site that spawns such tiresome stupid windows. -- David CL Francis |
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Big John, if the seat is the F18 is the ACES II Style that I used in the
B-1, then it is not a "back pack" style chute, the parachute is packed in the head rest and ballistically deployed as part of the ejection sequence, when it goes.. and inflates.. you get man seat separation. Actually the ACESII seat works in 3 modes depending on where you are in the ejection envelope. BT "Big John" wrote in message ... Nathon One news report you listed said that pilot did not separate from seat and landed in it and ended up with a few scrapes and bruises. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Chute won't open until after you separate from seat as you are sitting against it in a back pack and you are strapped in the seat with shoulder and lap belts. Until you separate from seat the chute won't/can't open. One picture showed the left rudder and up along the port side of the fuselage and most of the port wing. There was no obvious damage to the wing or rudder from a ground impact if bird had rolled as summarized by reporter???? Again, as Casey said. Lots of Monday morning quarterbacks and report will never be released so we will never know unless someone in the Sq talks to his bed mate or a friend ) Big John On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:11:46 GMT, Nathan Gilliatt wrote: In article , Big John wrote: They don't normally report the cause of an accident unless it causes some civilian damage which this one didn't. No damage, but a close call. The plane ended up about 250 feet from a passenger terminal, having passed near passenger jets on the ramp along the way. The newspaper had a diagram that showed the airplane beginning along runway 23L, the pilot ejecting as he passed taxiway charlie, and the plane skidding across taxiway alpha and a corner of the terminal A ramp before ending up past the end of the ramp. Kind of a busy area. Most GA traffic uses that side of the airport, too. It's a little higher profile than the typical military mishap. Not too many airline passengers get to watch unmanned tactical jets roll/bounce/tumble (whatever it in fact did) by as they wait for departure. I guess we'll see if that leads the Navy to release any information from the investigation. Here are a couple more local media links: Jet crashes at RDU (Saturday 3/27) http://www.newsobserver.com/news/sto...-3071734c.html Cause of crash at RDU unclear (Sunday 3/28) http://www.newsandobserver.com/front...-3073838c.html - Nathan |
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BT Showing my age of course. When I ejected (in days of yore) the timer fuse started and burned down and hit the explosive charge that blew the seat belt apart and also fired the "butt snapper" which threw me out of the seat. I had the Zero Lanyard connected to 'D' ring and upon separation from seat it pulled the 'D' ring and released the Drogue chute which started canopy out of the pack. The drogue chute pulled the whole canopy out ending up with no slack in the chute lines and then the drogue chute pulled the bag off the canopy and it opened. Very smooth opening and no crack the whip with physical damage to pilot. Read your comments about the Aces seats. The F-18 uses Martin Baker (NACES) seats. Not sure how chute is set up in the F-18??? I'll bet a million that he did not hit the ground still in the seat and only get a few scrapes and bruises. If he did, he used all 9 lives in one episode. I wonder if he sent in and got his Caterpillar Certificate and pin. I did. They still give out even though the chutes are not made of silk any more. This started giving out in 1922 by the way and original pins were gold. In 1950 there were over 50K registered in Caterpillar Club who had saved their lives by using a chute (per Internet). Tomorrow we spring forward and get more daylight to work with in the afternoon/evening ) Big John `````````````````````````````````````````````````` ````````````````````` BTIZ" wrote: Big John, if the seat is the F18 is the ACES II Style that I used in the B-1, then it is not a "back pack" style chute, the parachute is packed in the head rest and ballistically deployed as part of the ejection sequence, when it goes.. and inflates.. you get man seat separation. Actually the ACESII seat works in 3 modes depending on where you are in the ejection envelope. BT "Big John" wrote in message .. . Nathon One news report you listed said that pilot did not separate from seat and landed in it and ended up with a few scrapes and bruises. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Chute won't open until after you separate from seat as you are sitting against it in a back pack and you are strapped in the seat with shoulder and lap belts. Until you separate from seat the chute won't/can't open. One picture showed the left rudder and up along the port side of the fuselage and most of the port wing. There was no obvious damage to the wing or rudder from a ground impact if bird had rolled as summarized by reporter???? Again, as Casey said. Lots of Monday morning quarterbacks and report will never be released so we will never know unless someone in the Sq talks to his bed mate or a friend ) Big John On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:11:46 GMT, Nathan Gilliatt wrote: In article , Big John wrote: They don't normally report the cause of an accident unless it causes some civilian damage which this one didn't. No damage, but a close call. The plane ended up about 250 feet from a passenger terminal, having passed near passenger jets on the ramp along the way. The newspaper had a diagram that showed the airplane beginning along runway 23L, the pilot ejecting as he passed taxiway charlie, and the plane skidding across taxiway alpha and a corner of the terminal A ramp before ending up past the end of the ramp. Kind of a busy area. Most GA traffic uses that side of the airport, too. It's a little higher profile than the typical military mishap. Not too many airline passengers get to watch unmanned tactical jets roll/bounce/tumble (whatever it in fact did) by as they wait for departure. I guess we'll see if that leads the Navy to release any information from the investigation. Here are a couple more local media links: Jet crashes at RDU (Saturday 3/27) http://www.newsobserver.com/news/sto...-3071734c.html Cause of crash at RDU unclear (Sunday 3/28) http://www.newsandobserver.com/front...-3073838c.html - Nathan |
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