Man that sucks, I wonder what happened. The F-18 is an incredible jet, one of the only ones in the world that has enough thrust to go straight up, continuously, without stalling. I got to fly in one at Maple Flag in the 80's, it's sick what these things can do.
My dad worked on them for years and years, and they were the reason I lived in Canada for a while. CFB Cold Lake AB. On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM, PT <cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > > They are probably going to have some survivor's guilt and a lot of > second guessing if anyone died. > > The article mentions that they stuck with it until the last second, so > props for that. > > It also mentions the plane was dumping fuel as it came down. Is that > something the pilots did, or was that likely only due to damage? > > http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/06/us/virginia-plane-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349608 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
