[simpits-tech] F-15 Inflight Emergency Video

[Ed Henderson]

That would be too cool...

I think the e-mail before that one got lost in space...  it was a '76 
model...

/F-15A, _*76-0061*_, 110th FS out of *Whiteman* AFB. Crashed 9 November, 
1995, Overran runway after landing 100knots too fast due to engine *fire*./

Later,
Ed


Gene Buckle wrote:
> BTW, for those that haven't seen it, I found a YouTube version of the 3D 
> animation that was done for the recent mid-air break up of an F-15.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R7BWrqmgac
>
>
>   
>> Oops...  forgot the rest of it..
>>
>> 0061 c/n 0247/A213.  (110 FS, 131 FW) suffered engine fire, landed 100 knots
>> too fast at Whiteman AFB, MO and ran off runway Nov 9 1995. w/o May 1, 1996.
>>
>>     
> O.M.F.G.
>
> You know why that video is now officially REALLY FREAKING cool?
>
> Because it very likely shows the last moments of the aircraft that donated 
> it's HUD, MPCD, TEWS and VSD to my project.  That is so fscking insanely 
> cool I can hardly stand it. :)
>
> It was my understanding that the parts came from a jet that was wrecked in 
> 1995, but I never researched it much after that.  After checking my list 
> of written off airframes, I noticed that the only accident in the general 
> time frame (1995, early 1996) that a) involved a fire and b) didn't result 
> in the total destruction of the airframe was 76-0061.
>
> I can't prove it 100%, but the dates and damage sure do make it highly 
> reasonable.  I'll see if I can get a copy of the accident report for that 
> one - it should include pictures of the airframe post-crash.  If it 
> matches the pictures I have of the donor wreck, yipee! :)
>
> Thanks Ed!
>
>
> g.
>
>
>   

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