F-16 Accidentally Fires on School

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LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. — A National Guard F-16 fighter jet (search) on a nighttime training mission Wednesday fired 25 rounds that tore through a Little Egg Harbor elementary school.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137632,00.html

 

[Gato_Solo]

LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. — A National Guard F-16 fighter jet (search) on a nighttime training mission Wednesday fired 25 rounds that tore through a Little Egg Harbor elementary school.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137632,00.html

What are they smoking in the cockpits of these airplanes today...At least the janitor made a 'clean sweep' of the area.

 

[Leslie]

Didn't someone just recently drop a bomb on a hiking path too? wtf?

perhaps they should be making more use of simulators

 

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Didn't someone just recently drop a bomb on a hiking path too? wtf?

perhaps they should be making more use of simulators

Yep
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136408,00.html

 

[Professur]

Oops ......



Maybe they should just stop putting live ammo into planes.

 

[Mirlyn]

Oops ......



Maybe they should just stop putting live ammo into planes.

Or dumbasses behind the stick....

 

[Gato_Solo]

Oops ......



Maybe they should just stop putting live ammo into planes.

That A-10 incident was a problem with the plane...the F-16 incident was a problem with the pilot. In any case...they're two vastly different weapons systems, anyway...

 

[Professur]

Still live ammo, tho ...

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

What are they smoking in the cockpits of these airplanes today...At least the janitor made a 'clean sweep' of the area.

It's the National Guard. What do you expect from one weekend a month and two weeks per year?

 

[Gato_Solo]

Still live ammo, tho ...

The 'practice bomb' is basically a ball of concrete. It don't go BOOM when it hits.

 

[Professur]

A-10 thunderbolt? I thought the a-10 was the Warthog??

 

[Gato_Solo]

A-10 thunderbolt? I thought the a-10 was the Warthog??

It's real name is the Thunderbolt II. It's called the Warthog because it's an ugly-looking plane.

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

A-10 thunderbolt? I thought the a-10 was the Warthog??

The previous version of the A-10 was the the warthog.

 

[Gato_Solo]

It's the National Guard. What do you expect from one weekend a month and two weeks per year?

Ummm...is it too much to ask the pilot to stay awake? How about asking him not to touch this button?

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

It's real name is the Thunderbolt II. It's called the Warthog because it's an ugly-looking plane.

I thought the warthog was an older version?

 

[Professur]

As I recall (I researched the Warthog for a RC model I was considering) the Warthog was a tankbuster, slow as hell, armoured like a tank, and carrying the heaviest cannon they could get airborn with.

 

[Gato_Solo]

I thought the warthog was an older version?

Oh, nooo. They are the exact same plane.

 

[Gato_Solo]

As I recall (I researched the Warthog for a RC model I was considering) the Warthog was a tankbuster, slow as hell, armoured like a tank, and carrying the heaviest cannon they could get airborn with.

Yep. That's the Thunderbolt II, alright. Pilots called it the warthog...not the manufacturer.

 

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As I recall (I researched the Warthog for a RC model I was considering) the Warthog was a tankbuster, slow as hell, armoured like a tank, and carrying the heaviest cannon they could get airborn with.

I remember seeing one fly at the Abbotsford Airshow back in '86 ,ugly, fast and loud would hate to hear it firing at me like it did the British in Basra.

 

[Professur]

The engine ducting for the model was 2L soda bottles. I've still got the plans about, just don't have the time.