Canadian F-18 crash at airshow

[fmansam]

f-18 crashed in rehearsal for airshow....

glad the pilots ok

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100724/img ... ec331.html

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100724/vid ... c7e2c.html

[DaveB]

Good grief He stayed with it longer than I'd have done!

ATB

DaveB

[Kevin Farnell]

Longer video footage over at the Beeb, seems to show a high alpha pass leading to a stall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10748900

Glad the pilot appears to be OK.

Kevin

[Garry Russell]

Not sure what a high alpha pass is ...do you mean high angle of attack......or too much shine??

Thanks for the links guys

[DispatchDragon]

Just watched the Beeb Video Kevin and I agree - Ive seen the Candians do that trick at Nellis a couple of times where they make a high AOA minimum control speed flypast ending in a vertical climb on afterburner. either way - Dave was correct he hung with it for a long time before departing the aircraft.


Leif

[DaveB]

Ee-gads..

Check out the F22 footage off that same thread at the Beeb

ATB

DaveB

[Jon.M]

Good grief.

Did they rewrite the laws of aerodynamics for the F22. They seem to have moved on from Newtonian physics into the stranger bits of quantum mechanics.

Jon

[Garry Russell]

I guse a high angles of attack they must be sitting on the thrust to a certain extent.

[Jon.M]

I think they can also vector the thrust to some extent which must be important to produce the manoeuvrability shown in the display.

Jon

[airboatr]

good to hear all were safe.