Maj. Lucas Frederick Gruenther died last week after his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed into the Adriatic Sea while he was on a night training mission. A former member of the 555th Fighter Squadron, he was serving as chief of flight safety for the 31st Fighter Wing at the time of the crash. The jet he was piloting belonged to the 510th Fighter Squadron.
AdelaideJohn1967 wrote: But where's the actual news link all I got was a cruddy video with people speaking a funny language and an F16 taking off... Not much else
Crashes of F16's have happened before. They've been around since 1976 and are flown by 25 different countries. BTW, the photo at the top of the page on the Christian Post link is an F22 Raptor with twin vertical stabilizers, whereas the F16 has just one. Compared to more modern designs, the F16 is comparatively cheap, which is why so many have been built.
AdelaideJohn1967
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Tropic Light wrote: Crashes of F16's have happened before. They've been around since 1976 and are flown by 25 different countries. BTW, the photo at the top of the page on the Christian Post link is an F22 Raptor with twin vertical stabilizers, whereas the F16 has just one. Compared to more modern designs, the F16 is comparatively cheap, which is why so many have been built.
But what about the ones that didn't crash and were stolen, and those stolen engines? Would love to know how you do that.
Lawrence Guy
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PUTNAM VALLEY, New York, US
Tropic Light wrote: Crashes of F16's have happened before. They've been around since 1976 and are flown by 25 different countries. BTW, the photo at the top of the page on the Christian Post link is an F22 Raptor with twin vertical stabilizers, whereas the F16 has just one. Compared to more modern designs, the F16 is comparatively cheap, which is why so many have been built.
Seriously, how can someone mistake an F-22 for an F-16?
Seriously, how can someone mistake an F-22 for an F-16?
Do you watch history/military channel? Pretty much every show about a single aircraft includes footage that is not the subject aircraft, but is displayed as such. Most people dont notice.
USAF has "lost" over 321 F-16's --
-- It includes aircraft lost due to in-flight and ground mishaps, natural disasters and any other cause of aircraft crashes or losses.
Lawrence Guy
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PUTNAM VALLEY, New York, US
Robb Mann wrote: Do you watch history/military channel?
Nope.
Robb Mann wrote: Pretty much every show about a single aircraft includes footage that is not the subject aircraft, but is displayed as such. Most people dont notice.
Just like the movies with F-16's painted black and called MiGs.
Kyle T Edwards
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St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
It's sad that so many single engine jets go down, but not surprising. The redundancy would be great...but it would cost money. As the old saying goes, "remember, your gear was made by the lowest bidder."
Lawrence Guy wrote: Just like the movies with F-16's painted black and called MiGs.
Don't you know how that works? Paint a plane black, it's the enemy. Paint a car black, it's the robbers. Dress a guy in black, he's the villain. If I ever rob a bank, I'm wearing a white suit and driving a white car, with whitewall tires, just to be safe. I'll even anodize my gun white! I'd be able to drive right past the cops, waving my white gun out the window, and they'd never suspect me. "It can't be him. Didn't you see? That was a white car. We're responding to a bank robbery; we must be looking for a black one."
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