To paraphrase about the old joke about a B-52 having to make a landing with one of its eight engines out:
“The dreaded 14 wheel landing!”
EDIT:
Buried somewhere deep in U.S. Air Force folklore, there’s a story about the military pilot calling for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running “a bit peaked.” Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down. “Ah”, the fighter pilot remarked, “the dreaded Seven-Engine approach”.
https://learnmuchworkharddogoodhavefun.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-dreaded-seven-engine-approach.html
It will buff out.
Spanish F/A-18 crashed, pilot ejected.
Far out…
Reminds me of a doco l saw on the Airbus A380. Rolls Royce were testing their engines for bird strike. They wanted to ensure the blades on their turbines could withstand a bird strike and stay contained within the engine nacelle. In order to test the blades they started shooting supermarket turkeys at the engines from some sort of cannon. Engineers were a bit upset that the flying turkeys were destroying the blades on the turbines. Then someone suggested that they should let the frozen turkeys thaw out, before they fired them at the engines.
Not sure whats going on here.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1661842162927935490
https://twitter.com/i/status/1661878594417688576
https://twitter.com/i/status/1661844747617464320
https://twitter.com/i/status/1661966782905700353
WTF are my videos not previewing.
Twitter hasn’t been been embedding for a few days.
Twitter has blocked embedding tweets, unless you pay Elon.
thanks lads
What happened?
Did they forget to put the wheels down?
Is that a permanent thing? (As far as you know at least)
At this stage it appears to be.
Damn. That’s going to be a huge usability decline. Bloody Elon.
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A Cessna crashed near Washington DC overnight, which triggered an F-16 to respond supersonic. The sonic boom caused a mass panic that there had been a bombing in the capitol.
The D.C. National Guard alongside the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that F-16 Multirole Fighters launched from Joint-Base Andrews earlier today were “Authorized to go Super-Sonic,” causing a Sonic Boom to be heard over the D.C. Metropolitan Region, in order to Intercept a Cessna Citation Business-Jet (N611VG) that they had Lost Contact with while Flying in an “Erratic Manner” and had entered the No-Fly Zone over the National Capital near the White House and Capitol Building; the Aircraft which was on a Flightpath from Elizabethan, Tennessee to Long Island, New York has since Crashed in Southwestern Virginia. It is not yet know how many Passengers were on-board the Aircraft or if there are any Survivors though Emergency Crews are on-scene.