Holy cow!!!!!!!  
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Tower Hobbies
Enter up to 4 keywords or Tower stock numbers
Logged in as Guest



Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
       

All Forums >> Radios, Batteries, Clubhouse and more >> Full Scale planes, cars, helis, boats >> Airplanes - Full Scale >> Holy cow!!!!!!!
Page: [1]

Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/12/2004 3:31:25 AM   
GrnBrt



Posts: 6992
Joined: 12/5/2001
From: Everett, WA, USA
Status: offline 		Quick thinking!!!!

Attachments
Click to see the file in new window.Attachment.mpg



_____________________________

Art Grabow SR
Senior forum Manager

US Army Special forces, mess with the best, die like the rest!
       Post #: 1

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/12/2004 3:54:25 AM   
Tall Paul



Posts: 4701
Joined: 6/23/2002
From: Palmdale, CA, USA
Status: offline 		Harriers are NOT the best airplanes around!

_____________________________

Sparky Paul
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/aerostuff

(in reply to GrnBrt)
       Post #: 2

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/12/2004 9:26:32 PM   
khodges


 

Posts: 5143
Joined: 7/3/2003
From: newton, NC, USA
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: GrnBrt

Quick thinking!!!!


Hell of a way to impress the people on the beach. Wonder what happened? I wouldn't say Harriers aren't he best planes, but they can do some wild stuff with that vectored thrust.

I was out at our rocket launch site about 15 years ago down in eastern NC, we all heard a distant boom, and saw a black cloud rising from the ground about 5 miles away; didn't think much about it, but about 30 minutes later there were two C-130's orbiting the area of the smoke, and a Blackhawk flew by us and headed toward the smoke. When we left the field and headed back to town (Rocky Mount) we went right by the smoke, it was about 30 yards off the road, right in the back yard of a house, turned out it was a Harrier; never found out why it crashed, but do know the pilot punched out and survived. The side of the house was charred and about an acre of grass and trees had burned.

_____________________________

Club Saito #2, WACO Brotherhood #20. What other trouble can I get into?

(in reply to GrnBrt)
       Post #: 3

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/13/2004 10:12:22 PM   
spad


 

Posts: 157
Joined: 9/23/2004
From: SwindonWilts, UNITED KINGDOM
Status: offline 		[Hell of a way to impress the people on the beach. Wonder what happened?]

Looks like the footage of the RAF Harrier displaying at the annual Sea Front Airshow at Lowestoft in Suffolk, UK from end July a couple of years ago.
Simple engine failure was the cause, but damned impressive results eh!?!
I was just up the coast and saw it on the local news along with the recovery activities the following days.
Bet your life the pilot is watching for the slightest sign of trouble with that engine - I thought he was a bit slow getting out actually! Must have been waiting to be sure the plane was no danger to the bathers?
cheers
Rick

_____________________________

"Flying is life, whatever happens before or after is just waiting"
(with apologies to Steve McQueen)

(in reply to khodges)
       Post #: 4

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/13/2004 10:36:32 PM   
Planebeach



Posts: 90
Joined: 6/20/2004
From: Krokstadelva, NORWAY
Status: offline 		The crash was caused due to engine failure, doing vstol and engine quits is not the best combination

_____________________________

Personlized F-27 Stryker Brushless, Alfa FW-190, Team Losi LST.

(in reply to spad)
       Post #: 5

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/14/2004 12:58:43 AM   
AU cary


 

Posts: 27
Joined: 11/2/2004
From: , AL, USA
Status: offline 		my uncle flew for the bulldogs of VMA 223 out of cherry point, he he said the airplane was a real death trap. he had several inflight failure's. one time he landed and when he got out of the jet there were hole's all thru the horizontal stab. it was due to poor cement on the taxi way. he told me the MX guy on his jet was pissed!

(in reply to Planebeach)
       Post #: 6

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/14/2004 3:17:28 AM   
cwrr5



Posts: 2135
Joined: 5/19/2004
From: Tucson, AZ, USA
Status: offline 		I would be too.... send it out perfectly flyable, and he brings it back with HOLES in it?!?!?!?! And nobody was even shooting at him!

By the way, did the guy that punched out actually land ON the plane in the video??? What luck! good thing it wasn't on fire or anything.

(in reply to AU cary)
       Post #: 7

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/14/2004 3:33:48 AM   
Fletch124



Posts: 902
Joined: 7/16/2004
From: Reno, NV, USA
Status: offline 		WHAT HAPPENED:
From my knowledge that i got off the Discovery wings channel is that if a Harrier hovers for over 90 seconds then the engines over heat and quickly lose power. So yeah it looks like he wasn't watchin his stop watch.

(in reply to cwrr5)
       Post #: 8

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/14/2004 3:41:04 AM   
CP140



Posts: 801
Joined: 7/1/2002
From: Vancouver, BC, CANADA
Status: offline 		In Martin-Baker We Trust!

_____________________________

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

(in reply to Fletch124)
       Post #: 9

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/14/2004 12:17:05 PM   
Bruno Stachel



Posts: 1097
Joined: 12/7/2001
From: Edgewood, KY, USA
Status: offline 		I too thought the pilot appeared to land on the plane. He could easily have gotten tangled and pulled under. Does anyone know if he made it unhurt?

(in reply to CP140)
       Post #: 10

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/14/2004 9:05:32 PM   
TOPGUNNER



Posts: 508
Joined: 5/26/2004
From: Fort Stewart, GA, USA
Status: offline 		This Video has been out there for alittle while, and from what I heard in another forum from some guy was it was from a bird geting sucked into the engine...

After the pilot hit the water a Jet ski came out and dragged him to shore... Pilot was fine...And I was told that the Pilot was at a Bar right on that beach watching a twilight airshow/Firework that show that night talking to some people about the crash..

P.S. This info was told to me from someone that knew someone that was there and "Talked" to the guy......
Could be a big pile of -BS- or could be true...who knows.. it sounded good to me

_____________________________

Every time I close the canopy before taking off, I feel that i'm closing the lid on my own coffin.......

(in reply to Bruno Stachel)
       Post #: 11

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/14/2004 11:50:32 PM   
LearjetMech


 

Posts: 515
Joined: 9/22/2003
From: Corinth, TX, USA
Status: offline 		I also heard it was a bird! But as mentioned earlier, they have about a 90 sec hover limit. I believe the engines are water with possibly methonol injected for cooling during hover. And I think the tank capacity is roughly 90 sec. Could be wrong though!

(in reply to TOPGUNNER)
       Post #: 12

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/15/2004 12:14:50 AM   
HalH


 

Posts: 628
Joined: 11/25/2002
From: Madison, WI,
Status: offline 		I heard that he ran out of fuel !

(in reply to LearjetMech)
       Post #: 13

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/18/2004 4:53:46 AM   
Silvanskii



Posts: 780
Joined: 8/23/2002
From: Piqua, OH, USA
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: LearjetMech

I also heard it was a bird! But as mentioned earlier, they have about a 90 sec hover limit. I believe the engines are water with possibly methonol injected for cooling during hover. And I think the tank capacity is roughly 90 sec. Could be wrong though!


If they have a 90 second timelimit then the guy at last year's Dayton Airshow needed a complete overhaul of his engine after his display, which included 3, over 4 minute hovers including 2 short field takeoffs. Unfortunately that's all he did except for 1 high speed pass into a high G break.

_____________________________

GTO! www.myspace.com/goteamorange

(in reply to LearjetMech)
       Post #: 14

RE: Holy cow!!!!!!! - 12/18/2004 9:15:58 PM   
TOPGUNNER



Posts: 508
Joined: 5/26/2004
From: Fort Stewart, GA, USA
Status: offline 		90seconds???????

The same engine that allows the a/c to hover is the same engine that makes the a/c fly......

3 words "nozzles" wait thats only 1



They can hover for a very long time..... """BUT""" They can easily over heat in hover very very quickly, thats why the AV8B has a water reservoir that only when in a hover you can cool the engine off with the water allowing it to hover for a long time. But once there is'nt any airspeed to cool the engine down with when your in a stand still in the sky with a engine that can put out 23,800 lbf of trust.. I imagine they can overheat and shutdown very quickly BUT as it being Modern Day A/C you would be getting those annoying "Warning! Warning!, EGGHH! EGGGHH! Warning! Warning!" inside the cockpit way before the a/c even had time to think about overheating and stalling out...

Ill post up a Question to see exactly how long the AV8B can stay in a hover in my other special forums, but I know for a fact its alot longer than 90sec. And like &