OMG!! F-18 Fighter Jet Crashes in North Carolina!!

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Kenazo

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: Kenazo
if that was a canadian jet, that would be about 5% of our airforce down the tubes!
I suppose you were joking, but in all honesty you're not far off the mark.

I'm not joking. We have 60 CF-18's ready for combat, and 59 for training, testing and rotation (according to here). So, that's actually 8.3% of our active Jet fighters airforce. :) I'm sure we have some of those old voodoo starfighters mothballed somewhere still.
 

Crazymofo

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Originally posted by: cerebusPu
the pilot of my plane boasted after a landing once that it was a completely computer automated landing.

I wouldn't be boasting about the possible elimination of my own job...
 

TheNinja

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I wonder if they crashed it on purpose b/c there was a nuke or two on board and John Travolta is going to find them and sell them.
 

Nitemare

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Originally posted by: Crazymofo
Originally posted by: cerebusPu
the pilot of my plane boasted after a landing once that it was a completely computer automated landing.

I wouldn't be boasting about the possible elimination of my own job...

Doubt if too many people will fly in a plane where there is not a qualified pilot on board
 

StageLeft

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Originally posted by: Kenazo
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: Kenazo
if that was a canadian jet, that would be about 5% of our airforce down the tubes!
I suppose you were joking, but in all honesty you're not far off the mark.

I'm not joking. We have 60 CF-18's ready for combat, and 59 for training, testing and rotation (according to here). So, that's actually 8.3% of our active Jet fighters airforce. :) I'm sure we have some of those old voodoo starfighters mothballed somewhere still.
Heh, of those "ready for combat", how many do you think are actually _ready for combat_? I'd be surprised if more than half are planes that you could lube up, put some gas in and rockets on, and send to the sky!

 

Zorba

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I will never fly in a airplane that does not have a HUMAN pilot on board. I don't care if he just sits there the whole time while the computer flies. But sometimes the computer screw up and you need someone there to fix the situation.
 

LAUST

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Originally posted by: fivespeed5
Originally posted by: LAUST
MSNBC

that's some quality reporting there, it's a 4 paragraph article repeated :confused:
To be honest

"A Navy F-18 fighter jet crashed and burned on the runway at the Raleigh-Durham airport during takeoff Friday, but the pilot ejected, authorities said"

Thats all the info I ever want our of the media anyway, if you have ever been part of a media story yourself these guys make so much BS up to make a dramatic story. Give me a sentance or 2 of the FACTS and leave out the fat. Later on when they find out the cause they can include that in 1 sentance also, and I'll skip the "story" in that one too ;)