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    JTAC to receive Silver Star for 13 hour firefight

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    “They owned the high ground,” Delaney told Air Force Times last year. “They had fire superiority. They had hundreds of people. And we killed almost all of them and didn’t lose a single American in seven hours of battle. It was seven hours of full-blown, slugfest, back-and-forth, rounds-smacking-right-over-your-head battle.”

    ######ing awesome.

    Cold War 2.0

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    That worked well in 1914 and 1939.

    They were fighting amongst themsevles... not defending the continent from the asian invaders. Not arguing the merits of ending genocide, but other wise, they can defend themselves. Look at defense spending as a percentage of GDP around the EU, know why it's so low? We foot the f'ing bill and provide all the man power. Why?

    They've been able to build their socialist EU utopia under the umbrella we've provided. They can defend it on their own.

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    Troops Pose with Body Parts of Insurgents (here we go again...)

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    I find this far more disturbing. I can understand the macabre pics of someone actively trying to kill you in a war zone. It obviously doesn't help the cause...but I understand. I don't understand the equivalent of the WG/CC's wife going batshit crazy while the unit is away.

    There was a pretty big write up on this dude and his wife a while back, he lost his command for her hijinks. She's a real piece of work.

    http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/06/ap_drinkwine_wife_bragg_bct_061110/

    Interstate Cadet

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    Hot damn, there is a Spartan Executive for sale on Moose's link. Hands down one of the best looking airplanes ever built.

    I would do unspeakable acts to own one of those. Unspeakable acts.

    Interstate Cadet

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    Nice! Oddly enough, I flew a PT-19A (for the first time) in Uvalde, Texas 3 weeks ago. It was the one on the cover of Warbirds magazine late last year. and flew pretty sweet. The owner had a lot of respect for crosswinds in it, and didn't want to chance them.

    After I made a few turns on departure, he said "I don't do aerobatics in it. You see the wing seam? Everything inside of that, including the fuselage, I restored. Everything outside of that is 1940." Needless to say, I kept it under 1.2G's all day!

    If you buy it, can I get a ride as a finders fee? :beer:

    Hornet Crash @ Virginia Beach - Populated Area

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    Posted · Edited by BolterKing

    Bolterking,

    How likely was it that the crew was intentionally dumping fuel versus leaking fuel? With as little time as they apparently had then they were sure on top of things either way. If a part of the engine liberated (I'm referring to something heavy like a disk as opposed to blade(s) which I would suspect would stay contained) then it could easily puncture a tank and maybe account for some witnesses (assuming they're right) saying they saw fire prior to impact.

    Have to wait for the report to come out. I've heard contradictory reports in the media that they were circling over head dumping prior to the crash, and others that they crashed right after take off. While they could've been dumping, I'm not sure why. Heavy landing isn't that big of a deal, getting on deck is the higher priority when you're on fire, but that's all speculation based on inconsistent data. A catostrphic failure in the AMAD bay (gear box that drives fuel pump, gen, hyd pump, etc) could have let to fuel pouring out from there under pressure. Don't know though.

    You are correct, the engine case is designed to contain the blade in a blade out event. We spend a lot of time and money making sure of this, including running fan blade out tests where we rig a blade with explosives and let it loose at a certain point in the cycle to prove the case worthy of containing the blade.

    While it's possible that a rotor failed, it is very, very unlikely. We do extensive design work to prevent these. Why? Because we cannot contain a rotor failure event, there is too much energy in the rotor. There has only been one situation that I am aware of where a rotor has failed on one of our engines and that was in the 80's.

    Yes, this is possible, though the engine design should account for it. This is another event we design for and test, though there are other operability systems that could unload the compressor and keep it from stalling in this kind of situation. This would be a very unique situation and I think you would have to be really pushing the engine to the edge of its operability envelope and then have some other failure occur where the engine couldnt unload the compressor.

    Wrong-O dude. Hornet had an uncontained engine failure last year on the flight deck during CQ, injured 8 or 9 people. Another a few months before that in the Arabian Sea made an emergency landing with a dual engine fire. While not common, it does happen.

    Hornet Crash @ Virginia Beach - Populated Area

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    BK, how big a deal is a single engine EP in the Hornet, in this config (assuing at least one drop tank) right after take off?

    Just remember in my Navy days at least one coming back to the boat, 10 mile straight in, half flaps. I realize, shore and boat completely different animals.

    Jet flies fine on one engine, especially light (one centerline and pylons). Buddy of mine lost an engine on the cat shot in in a combat loaded jet (two drops, three 500 #ers) and didn't even realize he'd lost the motor until after he cleaned up. Never got any master caution/warning or aural tones.

    Have to wait until they pull the info from the DFIRS to see what actually happened.

    Hornet Crash @ Virginia Beach - Populated Area

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    Posted · Edited by BolterKing

    I seem to recall that Canuck Hornet doing airshow practice had something with a single engine compressor stall at high alpha and lost control. From the sounds (one nozzle open, one closed), that could be a culprit. Bolter King commentary?

    But who cares, as long as people are okay, who gives a ###### about the airplane.

    Rumors that tower reported they were on fire on takeoff. Was an F-18D, you can tell from pictures of the ejection seats on them interwebs, older seats, not the new SJU-17. There are Deltas with the newer seat, but those are high lot jets most of which are in Marine fleet squadrons, but I digress. Yes seat/man seperation happens right after the chute opens (which is packed in the head box (heh). Winds of 20G25 in the Hornet are not that big of a deal, compressor stalls in the F404 are pretty rare unless you suck something down like a bird. They operate just fine at 70 knots and 45+ AOA. The Canadian jet that crashed was doing a slow speed/high AOA demo practice and lost a motor, usually about 25 AOA and 110 knots or so, 35 AOA is C/Lmax. On takeoff you'll rarely exceed single digit AOA.

    Agree that one nozzle open, the other closed indicates an engine problem (speculation) however the three loud bangs everyone heard was probably the ejection sequence. Canopy, back seat, front seat. Know the guy in the back, good/smart dude. Hoping everyone on the ground is ok.

    This is going to turn into a political shit storm given the vocal nature of local opponents to the base.

    Boss, I quit...

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    For all the wannabe's out there that think this gives them an air tight path to an F-22 cockpit:

    What this is really saying is there is a shortage of pilots for OTHER jobs that don't require actual flying. There is zero danger of cockpits sitting empty.

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