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May 13^th, 2012 at 1:18pm

CHUCK79 Offline
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A little article I stumbled on today:

http://news.yahoo.com/fighter-pilots-claim-intimidation-over-f-22-raptor-1238324...

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #1 - May 13^th, 2012 at 1:26pm

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Hmmm... Kamikaze without their own-will, putting it briefly, right?

I guess the USAF doesn't want to admit they wasted billions on a war machine that's more dangerous to its own pilot than to the enemy...

Up is the way to go.

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Reply #2 - May 13^th, 2012 at 1:36pm

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Quote:

Capt. Haney never made a distress call but took his plane into a dive and, a little over a minute later, crashed into the winter wilderness at faster than the speed of sound.

After a lengthy investigation, an Air Force Accident Investigation Board could not find the cause of the malfunction but determined "by clear and convincing evidence" that in addition to other factors, Haney was to blame for the crash because he was too distracted by his inability to breathe to fly the plane properly.

I couldn't find the accident investigation report, but if they actually concluded that he was "distracted" because of an inability to breath, then that has to be the worst (and stupidest) "we don't care" statement I've ever heard. It's things like this where I lose hope in humanity.

Cheers,
RB

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Reply #3 - May 13^th, 2012 at 4:53pm

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Please PLEASE do not follow that stupid article! Main stream news agencies need to stay away from aviation topics if they keep this crap up!
MUCH better article with better detail from a REAL

aviation/defense news source:
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_05_07_2012_p31-45421...

‎"At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation."- Igor Sikorsky

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