Author Topic: F-16 Canopy Jettison (Read 4376 times)

Chairboy · « **Reply #15 on:** September 27, 2005, 01:33:20 PM »

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Originally posted by CMC Airboss
LOL Chairboy. I think you missed one opportunity at offending people. What would an Air Force pilot or airman do?

What would an Air Force pilot care about something happening 35,000 feet below him? The war is in the sky!

eagl · « **Reply #16 on:** September 27, 2005, 01:43:04 PM »

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If it was a Naval aviator, the jettisoned canopy would safely land in a padded wheelbarrow, then the plane would be pushed into a river.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

That's too funny. Quite possibly true.

The AF pilot one is true as well, although for an F-15E crew it would be at 500 instead of 35,000 ft.

Cobra412 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 27, 2005, 10:21:23 PM »

Only 500 ft?

Hangtime · « **Reply #18 on:** September 27, 2005, 10:30:08 PM »

E model is ground attack. In typical Air Farce Fashion, they're putting billion dollar multi pilot groundfire vulnerable aircraft into the TOE slot once reserved for the A-10 Warthog.. a simple exceptionally effective low cost aircraft actually desigined for the role and far better at it than the billion dollar fragile (by comparison) F-15E.

Cobra412 · « **Reply #19 on:** September 27, 2005, 10:37:40 PM »

I've worked the Es for a little over 10 years now.

I really don't think the guys on the ground care if it's an A-10 or an F-15E doing CAS so long as they are getting the job done. They had a very good show on the Military Channel about an E doing CAS in the middle east. Not only did the aircrew do the job they did it flawlessly and saved alot of lives on the ground.