Plane just falls out of the sky!

[mattpilot]

check this out


http://www.big-boys.com/articles/harrierfalls.html

 

[Flyin Tony]

its a battery

 

[Vector4fun]

Hmmmm,

Harrier's don't float much. Gotta remember that.....

 

[Lead Sled]

This video brought back a few memories...

I went to an airshow while I was at college. The Marine Corps had a Harrier do a flight display. It was hovering just a few feet off of the ground in front of the grandstands where we were sitting when it had an engine failure. It made a hard landing and crumpled a few things. The pilot was OK.

'Sled

 

[mattpilot]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/3330045.stm

 

[sky37d]

check this out


http://www.big-boys.com/articles/harrierfalls.html

Ha! It would of been hilarious to been there when this happenend. I could just hear everyone talking about how they dont understand how a plane like that just doesnt fall out of the sky. Then wham it falls out of the sky.

However, I don't think it falls into the category of hilarious.

 

[Styles]

accidentally operated the controls for throttle and nozzle direction lever at the same time causing it to drop like a stone.

I'm not sure how he could do that ? I mean the two levers are far enough apart and have a totally different shape to them have a look. err I take that back he was probably checking out the chics on the beach after all he was only a butter bar LT.

http://harrier.hyperlinx.cz/images/Image25-cockpit-side console-p.jpg

 

[starchkr]

There was a plane in this thread???????

I was too busy staring at Tony's avatar.....

 

["TheBigPicture"]

Tony....that avatar rocks!! I always have a hard time reading your posts. Hail to the Toe.

 

[FracCapt]

Well....if THAT'S not a testament to the zero-zero ejection seats, I don't know what is.

 

[FN FAL]

Tony....that avatar rocks!! I always have a hard time reading your posts. Hail to the Toe.

What is it about a chick's ass, those two mounds of flesh poop tumbles out of?

 

[avbug]

I went to an airshow while I was at college. The Marine Corps had a Harrier do a flight display. It was hovering just a few feet off of the ground in front of the grandstands where we were sitting when it had an engine failure. It made a hard landing and crumpled a few things. The pilot was OK.

Sled,

How long ago was that airshow? I saw the same thing happen once at an airshow, about 1975, I think. The airplane bounced about ten feet in the air after the first impact.

 

[Styles]

VTOL + engine failure = ouch

 

[Lead Sled]

Sled,

How long ago was that airshow? I saw the same thing happen once at an airshow, about 1975, I think. The airplane bounced about ten feet in the air after the first impact.

It would have been sometime during between 1973 or 1974. It happened at the Provo, Utah airport.

'Sled

 

[avbug]

I was there. But I believe it had to be 76, because if I recall, it was the bicentennial. I think that was the last airshow at PVU.

 

[Lead Sled]

I was there. But I believe it had to be 76, because if I recall, it was the bicentennial. I think that was the last airshow at PVU.

How about that! You'll probably remember me then... I was the one with the ball cap and sunglasses. Now that you mention it, maybe it was 1976. Boy has a lot of water passed under the bridge since then.

'Sled

 

[avbug]

I think I was the one in a tee shirt. And either shorts or bell-bottoms. I don't recall.

I think that was the show that had both the blue angels and the thunderbirds in the F-4's. The blue angels were in A-4's. I seem to recall Art Scholl there, and Duane Cole, too. That was some time back, but I do remember the Harrier bouncing. I recall the PA anouncement that the pilot was fine, all that was hurt was his pride. I remember thinking, I seriously doubt that.

 

[Lead Sled]

I think I was the one in a tee shirt. And either shorts or bell-bottoms. I don't recall.

I think that was the show that had both the blue angels and the thunderbirds in the F-4's. The blue angels were in A-4's. I seem to recall Art Scholl there, and Duane Cole, too. That was some time back, but I do remember the Harrier bouncing. I recall the PA anouncement that the pilot was fine, all that was hurt was his pride. I remember thinking, I seriously doubt that.

I remember you now...
You were the one with the bell bottoms, the waffle stompers, and the mutton-chop sideburns. Wasn't Bob Hoover there? I remember watching his Aero Commander act, but it may have been at a different show. Funny, I remember thinking that guy's got to be hurting after slamming that thing on the ground that hard. Oh well, small world eh?

'Sled