Author Topic: U.S. warplane HO'd by a bird. (Read 388 times)

Ack-Ack · « **on:** August 05, 2005, 07:08:18 PM »

Supposedly it's supposed to be a Tomcat but the back seater sounds more like a flight instructor than a back seater.

You would think birds wouldn't be such HO monkeys.

Bird HO's warplane

ack-ack

Maverick · « **Reply #1 on:** August 05, 2005, 07:14:45 PM »

If the bird didn't "see" the collision, does that mean he's still flying around out there?

Russian · « **Reply #2 on:** August 05, 2005, 07:35:14 PM »

http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boards/bbs/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=20;t=020817

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #3 on:** August 05, 2005, 07:38:41 PM »

Damn birds are overmodeled

Hawklore · « **Reply #4 on:** August 05, 2005, 07:41:53 PM »

yeeeouch..

Flit · « **Reply #5 on:** August 05, 2005, 07:54:19 PM »

Run adaware if you went to the bigboys site:aok

ASTAC · « **Reply #6 on:** August 05, 2005, 09:13:25 PM »

Not an F-14.

That camera view shows a pitot tube centered on the nose of the A/C. The f-14 has no tube mounted anywhere on the upper half of the nose.

Plus the cockpit warning voice. I'm almost sure the f14 doesn't have that at all.

Widewing · « **Reply #7 on:** August 05, 2005, 09:13:55 PM »

That is not an F-14. Probably a T-45 Goshawk.

My regards,

Widewing

ASTAC · « **Reply #8 on:** August 05, 2005, 09:15:32 PM »

Maybe a T-45 Goshawk trainer.

Oops saw that widewing already said it was a T-45

Russian · « **Reply #9 on:** August 05, 2005, 09:53:39 PM »

Am I farking invisible? Click on that farking link and find out....

Hangtime · « **Reply #10 on:** August 05, 2005, 10:21:40 PM »

LOL Yah Russian. missed yer post completely.

..it was a BAE Hawk, Canadian AF. Cripes if birds take 'em out, just think what the danes can do with a trebouct.

Raider179 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 05, 2005, 11:14:18 PM »

Who got the kill?

lol

friggin rammers lol

Dinger · « **Reply #12 on:** August 06, 2005, 01:23:43 AM »

The prelim investigation report is online:

Doing touch-and-goes, ingests a bird, and gets an engine overheat warning. Instructor swaps speed for alt, still get the warning, eject. Instructor broke his leg on the ejection.

SuperDud · « **Reply #13 on:** August 06, 2005, 01:06:16 PM »

Learn to merge dweeb lol.

eagl · « **Reply #14 on:** August 06, 2005, 02:40:42 PM »

They were pretty low and had a good sink rate going at the time of the ejection, so I'm not suprised there was an injury sustained during or after the ejection. If you're high enough, you can do stuff like remove your mask, steer into the wind, fix certain canopy malfunctions, etc. If not, you pretty much punch out and whack the ground whether your ready to or not.

Good decision to eject, but given their low altitude the radio call was (on hindsight sitting in my chair at home) probably a mistake. The tower didn't even hear it properly, asking them to confirm that they were "breaking out to the north" after the pilot said "ejecting to the north".

That's one reason why the T-37 was our primary trainer for so long, and why the T-38 is going to be in service for another 20 or more years... One engine failure doesn't usually result in an ejection.