[simpits-chat] United States Navy Flops a f18 on landing

Sean Galbraith simpits-chat@simpits.org
Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:20:55 +1300


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I read a story about a Marine F-4 driver who had been on the boat for a 
looooong time.  He came ashore and on touch down he forgot to retard the 
throttles, and skittered through the perimeter fence and ended up stradling 
a railway line...

Sean.

At 05:09 PM 1/19/03 +0800, you wrote:
>I saw a interesting thing this weekend, when i was on base,  a United 
>States Navy f18  ran off the runway ploughed through a cattle fence then 
>proceeded to try and become one with nature stopping in a pile of trees,
>
>Man i dont know how this pilot can land on a carrier , when he runs off 
>the end of a nerely 3 kilometer runway  you gotta think " What happened "
>
>The aircraft is pretty buggered  ,  may be i should be building a fa18 pit 
>instead . i hear parts a cheep and avaliable ex australia
>
>anyhow cant say any more ,
>
>
>ben
><mailto:bjones@pipecomp.com.au>bjones@pipecomp.com.au
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I read a story about a Marine F-4 driver who had been on the boat for a
looooong time.&nbsp; He came ashore and on touch down he forgot to retard
the throttles, and skittered through the perimeter fence and ended up
stradling a railway line...<br><br>
Sean.<br><br>
At 05:09 PM 1/19/03 +0800, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=2>I saw a interesting
thing this weekend, when i was on base,&nbsp; a United States Navy
f18&nbsp; ran off the runway ploughed through a cattle fence then
proceeded to try and become one with nature stopping in a pile of
trees,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font><br>
&nbsp;<br>
<font size=2>Man i dont know how this pilot can land on a carrier , when
he runs off the end of a nerely 3 kilometer runway&nbsp; you gotta think
&quot; What happened &quot;</font><br>
&nbsp;<br>
<font size=2>The aircraft is pretty buggered&nbsp; ,&nbsp; may be i
should be building a fa18 pit instead . i hear parts a cheep and
avaliable ex australia</font><br>
&nbsp;<br>
<font size=2>anyhow cant say any more ,&nbsp; </font><br>
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<font size=2>ben</font><br>
<font size=2><a href="mailto:bjones@pipecomp.com.au">bjones@pipecomp.com.au</a></font><br>
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