Pretty sure there's a russian mechanic somewhere in Crimea pounding away on a underbelly. ...or using light blue duct tape. [Скотч]
YouTuber accused of deliberately crashing plane for views pleads guilty Trevor Jacob, 29, faces up to 20 years in prison after purposely destroying wreckage of small plane that he crashed in 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/technol...crashed-plane-pleads-guilty-los-padres-forest
Like we didnt see that one coming. Freakin idiot. Maybe he can still youtube while he does his time. Unless he goes to Epstein's prison because everyone knows cameras dont work there.
Engine inlets are all wrong for a mig-23. Don’t know Soviet aircraft enough to say what they are (were).
You're both right - I was way off, but should have known better. At first, I thought it was a MIG-27, given the narrow almost radar-less nose, but then I thought it might be some low production/test varianty of the MIG-23 since it did appear to have, at least, a ranging radar of some sort.
Interesting airplane! Never realized that western companies were supporting/supplying Com-bloc companies with equipment. Thing had a Rolls engine/ GE/Marconi avionics plus some Honeywell? Back prior to the iron curtain falling.
The Apollo Launch Escape System consisted of a rocket attached to the top of the Apollo capsule. It was smaller, lighter and far more powerful than the first rocket that put an American in space. Fortunately, it was never needed on a manned flight.
One of our sons is an USAF F16 pilot serving in Korea. A few weeks ago, one of his buddies had to bail out shortly after takeoff. He was extremely lucky (well trained) and survived. He was actually able to go out for a well deserved drink with the squadron 2 days later. The video is impressive . https://www.facebook.com/1000903367...rday-morning-near-a-major-u/1224683925078090/
HOLY CRAP......amazing they can eject like that. A Cessna went down in Virginia today, USAF sent 6 fighters to take a look why this plane was flying over restricted air space. The pilot was seen slumped down, they think they lost cabin pressure.
That was YOUR boy? Glad to read he’s okay, and what an interesting event to have on his OPR. The seat fitted in DoD jets nowadays, the ACES II, has continually been improved since inception around 40 years ago. It’ll get you away from a jet sitting on the ground at zero knots and all the way up to FU speeds/altitudes. What usually hurts guys isn’t the ejection itself, but the landing and failure to separate from the ‘chute properly. It can’t be much fun being pulled along in 40 kts winds through a Walmart parking lot after you lost your wheels. Or, if you were like my dad doing water survival training with no-shit SEALS in Bermuda, the sharks decided to check out the big orange pillow in the sea looking for something tasty. No one got bit, but he learned to be fast getting into that rubber boat that comes down with your parachute. :|
The pilot was friend of mine, retired SWA Captain from Melbourne FL. I have flown with him extensively and he was very experienced, a good pilot. It was a 1990 Citation V that was just purchased in April of this year, it had been living in Venezuela since 2015- given the nature of the accident, I'm assuming a loss of cabin pressure followed by a failure of the O2 system, or a failure of the cabin pressure alerting system. I'm going out on a limb here, but Jeff was a thorough and conscientious pilot who was used to an airline level of safety, and I feel he would have checked the O2 system before departure. I'm really saddened to hear about this, I know that he would never have wanted to let down his passengers. @ORIF I'm glad your boy is safe, probably had less than a second to decide to get out of that one.
