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

[Gene Buckle]

Navy pilots aren't trained to use those new-fangled "brakes".  They have a
nice big cable to stop them!

You should have run up to it and called dibs on the carcass. :)

g.


On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Ben Jones 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,
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> 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 "
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> The aircraft is pretty buggered  ,  may be i should be building a fa18 pit instead . i hear parts a cheep and avaliable ex australia
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> anyhow cant say any more ,
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> ben
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