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

[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.

 

[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...

 

[TheNinja]

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]

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]

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]

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]

MSNBC

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: LAUST
MSNBC

that's some quality reporting there, it's a 4 paragraph article repeated 😕

 

[LAUST]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: LAUST
MSNBC

that's some quality reporting there, it's a 4 paragraph article repeated 😕

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 😉