Classic British Flight Sim

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

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

ATB

DaveB

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

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

Thanks for the links guys

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

Ee-gads..

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

ATB

DaveB

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

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

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

Jon

good to hear all were safe.