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Luftwaffe fatality

#1 Post by Boac » Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:52 pm

Two Eurofighters reportedly collided this afternoon with one pilot killed and unknown injuries on the ground.

https://news.sky.com/story/two-aircraft ... y-11748071

https://www.ostseewelle.de/nachrichten/ ... kollidiert

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#2 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:59 pm

That horrible moment when the guy you are slow-speed scissoring with calls "Ballistic" half a second after you do?
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#3 Post by Boac » Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:03 pm

..............or in a Harrier 1v1 slaps down braking stop nozzle right in front of you :-o

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#4 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:21 pm

..or at Deci they show you the ACMI tape from the day before where an F-16 and an F-18 pass at M2.5 with a miss distance of 18 feet...and neither saw the other.

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#5 Post by Boac » Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:46 pm

Must have been a little turbulence!

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#6 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:46 pm

I guess!

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#7 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:21 pm

Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote:
Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:21 pm
..or at Deci they show you the ACMI tape from the day before where an F-16 and an F-18 pass at M2.5 with a miss distance of 18 feet...and neither saw the other.
Did that with a Lightning in a Vulcan. He agreed to play Ruski and we would execute our secret plan. He set up for a 180 and we went down the throat. He did a fake turn once he passed underneath but we had him in the periscope. Moments later we were down his throat again but before we could execute the next turn he called knock it off.

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