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US F-15 Crashes in Lincolnshire

  • 08-10-2014 3:55pm
    #1
    ldnboy87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭


    Pilot seems to have ejected safely but landed near a school.

    Can't post links yet but its on the front page of the BBC news website.


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  • #2
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-29544064


  • #3
    emo72
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,341 ✭✭✭emo72


    didnt 2 of these fly over croker recently?


  • #4
    BonkeyDonker
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    emo72 wrote: »
    didnt 2 of these fly over croker recently?

    nope - too many engines.


  • #5
    Preset No.3
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    Totally different type of aircraft, but no need for scare mongering!

    An Air France A330 crashed into the Atlantic, wait, does Aer Lingus fly the A330?


  • #6
    emo72
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    Preset No.3 wrote: »
    Totally different type of aircraft, but no need for scare mongering!

    An Air France A330 crashed into the Atlantic, wait, does Aer Lingus fly the A330?

    aahhhh no. i dont think i was scare mongering. just when i seen it i was wondering was it the same type of craft i seen flying over dublin, forgot it was an f16. too many f planes!

    i wonder how sick the air force is when one of these go down. they cost tens of millions each?


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  • #7
    Beano
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    Is the pilot now eligible to join the Martin-Baker club?


  • #8
    GekkePrutser
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    emo72 wrote: »
    i wonder how sick the air force is when one of these go down. they cost tens of millions each?

    It could be worse in that regard, the F15 is from the 70's.. Probably close enough to being mothballed anyway. Luckily nobody got hurt!


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
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    I read it was the last production F15 that was purely Air to Air.


  • #10
    L1011
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    Beano wrote: »
    Is the pilot now eligible to join the Martin-Baker club?

    As its not a Martin-Baker seat, no. Has one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACES_II


  • #11
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I read it was the last production F15 that was purely Air to Air.

    I didn't realise that they had switched to only F-15E produtction?

    From wiki:
    $30M in 1998 for an F-15C/D.

    EDIT: From wiki: "Newer models are still being produced for foreign users. The F-15 production line is set to end in 2019, 47 years after the type's first flight"


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  • #12
    Duffer2010
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    Two years ago on the Eve of St Patricks I got talking to the crew of an F15 based in Lakenheath. It was in Sinnots Bar in Dublin, they were over for the weekend with their wives. Sound chaps-they were telling me that they had been flying through the Machloop just the previous week. These fella's were bigger aerosexuals than me!! Needless to say, their otherhalves didn't seem too happy as they talked shop for a good few hours......


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
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    Tenger wrote: »
    I didn't realise that they had switched to only F-15E produtction?

    From wiki:
    $30M in 1998 for an F-15C/D.

    EDIT: From wiki: "Newer models are still being produced for foreign users. The F-15 production line is set to end in 2019, 47 years after the type's first flight"

    I happened to read a tweet from someone who seems to spend a lot of time following military stuff in the UK, whether it's true or not I don't know. Mil wouldn't be my specialist subject to be honest.


  • #14
    squonk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,990 ✭✭✭squonk


    Witness Janet Prescott said: "It's frightening to think that the jet has passed over houses and the village school. Who knows how that jet could have come down.

    "From the point he ejected to where the plane came down is probably a mile. That jet has continued flying with no-one in it.

    "It could have hit any one of a number of houses. Thank God it didn't."

    I'd say the Daily Mail are camped outside this woman's house gagging for quotes. She sounds just like their type of eye witness.


  • #15
    Beano
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    MYOB wrote: »
    As its not a Martin-Baker seat, no. Has one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACES_II

    thats a pity. apparently the tie pin is quite nice.


  • #16
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Beano wrote: »
    thats a pity. apparently the tie pin is quite nice.
    I'm sure that any rational person would want to go through an ejection just for a nice tie pin. I'm sure there are a few though! :)


  • #17
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    Tenger wrote: »
    I'm sure that any rational person would want to go through an ejection just for a nice tie pin. I'm sure there are a few though! :)

    True. But if you are going to go through an ejection a nice tie pin must surely be some compensation :)


  • #18
    OzCam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭OzCam


    IIRC, the amount of spinal compression caused by being rocketed out of the aircraft means that you can only eject twice. After a second one, you're medically grounded. It's not a nice procedure at all.

    The F15 was recently put through a wing-strengthening refit, there had been some problems with failures. The older ones have been retired and the USAF insist that the remainder are good to go until replaced. More details available online.


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