Looking for an F-15 my father worked on.

[PCD]

Hello all, I was wondering if there is anyway to track down a specific airplane. My father, when I was growing up, was a crew chief on an F-15 at Holloman AFB. I'd like to find out where the plane is now and hopefully find some pictures of it. It's tailcode is AF 76-0117. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[CrewDawg]

Sorry!

I googled F-15 AF 76-0117 and I got this website that says it has been written off. It says it was with 131st out in STL. guard when it collided with another 15 back in 99.

Scroll down to bottom. It's number 129

http://www.sukhoi.nl/crashes.html

Also number 129 on this site

http://home.wanadoo.nl/patricknieuwkamp/wo.html

 

[PCD]

Thanks

I googled F-15 AF 76-0117 and I got this website that says it has been written off. It says it was with 131st out in STL. guard when it collided with another 15 back in 99.

Scroll down to bottom. It's number 129

http://www.sukhoi.nl/crashes.html

Also number 129 on this site

http://home.wanadoo.nl/patricknieuwkamp/wo.html

Oh man, that's terrible. I'm glad the pilot escaped to fly another day though. Thank you very much for the help.

 

[The_Russian]

Was that the one from the circulated video? This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7MJlmaJv1I

 

[Fox-Tree]

Was that the one from the circulated video? This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7MJlmaJv1I

No. The HUD video in that one is from an F-16. It was a 2-seater with a Bill Elliot (race car driver) in the backseat getting an orientation ride. The F-16 recovered and landed, the Eagle (Dobbins Guard) did not. Caused by the F-16 pilot taking a face pure-pursuit heater shot at about 4500 feet. The shot they show is actually his second. His first is also inside 9K'. I'm sure Elliot was real impressed.

The video in the link you provided has been circulating around lately. It's actually a combination of two videos. The pre-impact portion is from the accident I mentioned above. The post-impact with the flat spin and pilot yelling about getting out and "Mark!" is from a different accident that involved a Kunsan F-16 in 1982. That F-16 pilot took a face heater shot on an F-4 inside 9000 feet and hit it.

I have no idea why someone would combine them like they did. Here's some comments from the pilot himself and a link to the real video of the Kunsan accident. Funny how he says "which impacted me" - Takes a 6K' face heater and somehow thinks HE got hit.

"This copy is an altered version of the original, I know because it came from MY aircraft and I was the one who bailed out. It was a mid-air, true, but my aircraft was an F-16A and the other aircraft which impacted me was a Marine F-4."
"The collision took place over the Yellow Sea off the West coast of South Korea on December 15, 1982. The apparent impact aircraft in the video currently on your website has been digitally superimposed into the original footage. The original footage is attached as a wmv file (See it, below) of less than good quality, but if you would desire a better copy, I may be able to burn a DVD of it. Please let me know, and for goodness sakes, correct the description on your website if possible."

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/2006-5-26_Real-Midair.wmv

 

[AlbieF15]

I've been a TR criminal shooting inside of 9k--but not because I was aggressive...rather what I though was a tail aspect (1-3 AA) was really a cranium aspect (16-H). The resulting "ohmygosh" moments fortunately have turned out better than for this guy. I think anyone who's flown against Vipers has seen this at least once... I'm not sure if this guy is being aggressive or just pooched the aspect assessment, but a black dot against a really bright cloud background or looking into the sun can be misinterpreted every once in a while...

If he was being stupid--then bad on him...

 

[USMCFDX]

Albie, come on say it with me "head". LOL

 

[Gorilla]

Ugh. Viper guys, love ya, but the face pure pursuit was unpleasant. Off boresite works well.

My personal worst ever - Red Flag... F-15C's, we had the 1980's style ACMI pods. The Marines said "Screw the strikers, we'll meet you South of Worthington at 0900; Papas and guns." We abandoned the strike package but kept up a stream of chatter to pretend we were still with them, and wandered over to Worthington. They were there, and the resulting 16-ship melee was a thing of beauty.

At one point, though, the sky darkened momentarily and I heard the engines of another F-15 as it passed VERY closely over my canopy. It was my buddy. Back in the ACMI room, we isolated our two jets and replayed it over and over in slo mo. The pods passed less than 50 feet apart. The bodies of the jets looked to be within 10-20 feet. We both looked at each other, shook our heads, and learned a lesson that day. We also never mentioned it to anyone.

 

[SIG600]

We also never mentioned it to anyone.

Class dismissed.