Author Topic: F-14 weird destruction... (Read 784 times)

LLv34 Jarsci · « **on:** December 10, 2004, 07:34:46 AM »

http://rcgroups.com/gallery/data/500/827F14flyby.mpeg

Quite weird.

Speed was just and just below speed of sound..

Habu · « **Reply #1 on:** December 10, 2004, 07:51:00 AM »

That is really weird. Just blew up in the air. Glad the two pilots got out ok.

ASTAC · « **Reply #2 on:** December 10, 2004, 07:54:25 AM »

Probrably was trying to show off...by dumping fuel (fuel dump is between the exaust nozzles) and then igniting it with his afterburner. you can see a fuel trail right before the explosion. Not a smart move if that was the case.

mosgood · « **Reply #3 on:** December 10, 2004, 07:59:11 AM »

Wow... amazing! Hope those guys are ok.

I played it frame by frame and the nose of the f14 looks more like a migs. It looks like the point is lower thatn on a f14. I'm probably wrong but just saying.

SunTracker · « **Reply #4 on:** December 10, 2004, 08:19:49 AM »

I saw this on Discovery Channel. One of the engines self-destructed, both pilots bailed out.

mosgood · « **Reply #5 on:** December 10, 2004, 08:23:40 AM »

that's good news

Morpheus · « **Reply #6 on:** December 10, 2004, 08:57:09 AM »

I saw this a while back also. Jaw dropping. Id give anything to fly a Jet for a living.

Thank god the pilots made it out alive.

These guys,the ones who fly these jets, are my true heros.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #7 on:** December 10, 2004, 09:00:54 AM »

I seem to remember that F14 engines blew up a lot in the 1990s...

SOB · « **Reply #8 on:** December 10, 2004, 09:49:00 AM »

NEVAR FORGET GOOSE!

slimm50 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 10, 2004, 09:58:23 AM »

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Originally posted by SOB
NEVAR FORGET GOOSE!

LOL, Whatta diehard fan.

Hawklore · « **Reply #10 on:** December 10, 2004, 10:36:17 AM »

I think he may of tried to pull a turn off too soon, causing one of the engines to go kaput, then self destruct..

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 10, 2004, 12:48:36 PM »

C'mon guys, we all know that flying fighter jets in peacetime is so incredibly safe that it is the same as draft dodging. This video must be a fake.

Chairboy · « **Reply #12 on:** December 10, 2004, 12:55:03 PM »

Maybe there was a Patriot battery being tested nearby?

CMC Airboss · « **Reply #13 on:** December 10, 2004, 01:24:33 PM »

An aquaintance of mine died in a similar accident while simulating a supersonic cruise missile at sea level (for a ship-bourne weapons tracking test). The cause was traced to a broken turnbuckle in the afterburner section of the GE F110 engine. F-14B's and D's were grounded for a while until the problems could be fixed. The description that I heard of that accident mimicked the one in the video. The crew in the video were lucky to have the altitude to successfully eject.

MiG

Elfie · « **Reply #14 on:** December 10, 2004, 02:18:32 PM »

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The crew in the video were lucky to have the altitude to successfully eject.

I believe the F-14's ejection seats are quite capable of a 0/0 ejection. Meaning no altitude or airspeed required for a successful ejection sequence. All Air Force fighters I am familiar with are capable of 0/0 ejections.