Guest infamous me 235 Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 Wow, would be very scary to be there when this happened http://www.big-boys.com/articles/harrierfalls.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwishiwascool Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 comments are hillarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaSSon Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 Probablly overheated the engines. While they're hovering they have to run at or near full throttle. I forget where I picked that little tid-bit up, but it appears to be true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 wow, that's crazy... You don't see Jets like that go down very often... at least not unless they are shot down and that doesn't happen very often either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwishiwascool Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 harriers go down all too often unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 Reading the comments apparently it was pilot error not mechanical failure. He backed off the throttle when he thought he was repositioning the exhaust nozzles. Realized his mistake, then messed up correcting it and made it worse. Sadder than losing a fully functional plane - this guy's military flight days are over. Thats a career ending mistake right there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jpurdy2003 Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 Who are those dumb fucks who commented? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suffocateXfaster1647545505 Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Geez! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stevil Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 That sucks, my favorite jet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Originally posted by Mowgli: Reading the comments apparently it was pilot error not mechanical failure. He backed off the throttle when he thought he was repositioning the exhaust nozzles. Realized his mistake, then messed up correcting it and made it worse. According to this it was engine failure: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2168921.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractor Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 That type of thing is quite common in Harriers. They are kinda tricky to fly being the first aircraft to successfully use vertial takeoff and landing in the real world. Of course they were built before computers were very advanced so they are 100% pilot controlled. The next generation of VTL aircraft will have computer controller stablization software to give the pilot more room for error. Kinda like the B-1 bomber. Anyone really think that that is supposed to fly. Its mostly computers because humans don't react quick enough over time. Evan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 I'm hoping for the pilot it was engine failure. Would suck to be him otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Crankshaft Posted November 27, 2004 Report Share Posted November 27, 2004 <font color ="midnightblue"> He might as well have just stayed in the plane... I mean hell, when he came back down he landed right on top of it. Too bad. Arnold Swartz. in True Lies he is not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dark_Viper01 Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 Originally posted by Tractor: Kinda like the B-1 bomber. Anyone really think that that is supposed to fly. Its mostly computers because humans don't react quick enough over time. EvanI belive you are talking about the B2. The B1 is a swing wing (like the F-14)and easy to fly as large aircraft go. The B2 is a flying wing with no vertical surfaces and dose use stabilization software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 Most unstable aircraft award goes to: The X-29. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-29/Small/EC90-039-4.jpg Statically AND Dynamically unstable. So much so that it has an amplitude doubling modulation of .29 secs (coincidence only with the jet's name). That means, were the onboard computers to fail, the plane would begin an uncontrolled oscillation that doubled in size roughly every 1/3 of a sec. The plane projected thusly to tear itself apart in less than 7 seconds (luckily for the test pilots the three onboard computers never simultaneously failed, so it never happened). Gimme a B2 over that any day. Of course the instability was designed in on purpose and was the reason it was also the most manueverable aircraft ever (even moreso than thrust vectoring designs later on). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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