Posted on 11/04/2004 1:55:59 PM PST by crushelits
My guess is that the school system is going to send all of the little kiddies to grief counseling where they will force into them the idea that they should be VERY afraid of the military, guns, pocket knives, Christians, and Bush. Poor little public school tykes...
Its obviously a case of bad intelligence. I am sure he thought he was firing at the baby milk factory.
You'd think, but it has worked pretty well for more than 10 years. Remember, in the old days the first detent turned the camera on in many aircraft. That almost always worked too.
Do you know why they did away with that moniker? Was it due to some PC-type issue?
Ha! Or the French Embassy!
You make a lot of sense -- I know it takes about a half second for the Vulcan to reach it's full fire rate, so I'd guess it would fire 55-65 rounds in the first 1 second of shooting. But, I agree and still don't see somebody being able to squeeze off just 25 rounds?
I know this hardly constitutes an Accident Investigation Board, but do you think that considering the 7000' altitude (which does seem too high) the pilot may have been heading in and when he switched the Master Arm on OR selected his gun, that might have triggered some sort of electrical short in the firing circuit?
Just thinking out loud?
Was this near the turnpike? Might be related to those "Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft" signs you see now and then.
Yeah, but in the one case, you were likely to start using the gun after you turned on the camera to immortalize your kill (c8
In this case, you're intending to drop an LGB...not shoot the damn gun.
If they were going to fire on a school, perhaps they should have gone to Ithica.
Or a Young Life meeting in a class room after hours. Can't have any of that Christian stuff in the public school building...
Way ahead of you. . .see Post 90.
Maybe they thought it was the Chinese embassy
My reference point is seriously outdated - but, I don't think they make a DU round for the 20mm?
One quarter of a second. Bump. Very plausible.
While employed at NWSC Crane in Southern Indiana in the early 1980s, I'd often see Warties on their way to the Camp Atterbury gunnery ranges warming up a little on the morning on-the-way to work traffic, with first one lining up with a possible target for a second or two, then the other.
When they came along over the old Navy A4 Skyhawk *gate guard* on the road to the corner of the base where I worked, they both dipped their noses for a couple of seconds at the old *hot rod.* I do not believe it was exactly a salute to Naval Aviation, nor to a pretty good old aircraft that once performed the same sort of job they had, but it worked out that way.
Their altitude was much, MUCH less than 700 feet AGL on those pretty Hoosier mornings, more like 150 feet, sometimes maybe half that, around telephone pole-top heights.
My fiancee wrenched on the A10's Pave Penny targeting systems during her bluesuit days in Arizona. She saw nothing unusual about that sort of flying, routine for the A10 drivers in her experience.
Yes I have been reading the articles you pinged.
This one sounds like some kind of accident.
I don't think we have enough information about it for even the experts here at FR to come to any conclusion.
Pretty scarry though...It could just as well happen to our homes.
True, but like I said, the same switchology has been in place since I first flew the jet in the early 90's. I honestly have never heard of anyone accidently shooting the gun while lasing a target.
Take your finger off the button before you sneeze.
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