Photo Gallery of the Day: USN F/A-18 Super Hornet jet fighter blows tires, but everybody's OK

ARC Air Discussion Forums ^ | November 12, 2006 | CRASCA

[EnjoyingLife]

Here's a video of the F-18 Super Hornet accident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66K8WXQvb90

Link found at Carmichael's Position, in a worth-reading blog post titled "Pucker Factor!" (21 November 2006), http://johncarmichaels.typepad.com/carmichaels_position/2006/11/pucker_factor.html

[dcrider182]

Bump for later watching!
~D

[madison10]

Ouch.

[macmedic892]

Okay, I've seen the pictures and the YouTube video and I can only have two comments:

Pucker Factor!
and
Damn that's a funny way to park a plane!

[EnjoyingLife]

Here's a photo sequence of the F/A-18F Super Hornet tire blowout shot by another photographer starting at "Reply #36 on: November 11, 2006, 06:02:08 PM" thru Reply #38 (all by "Lin"): http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index.php/topic,4587.30.html

[raybbr]

Thanks. Those are amazing photos.

[EnjoyingLife]

"Recovery of B-1B 'SLIP 57'" after landing with its wheels up at Diego Garcia on 8 May 2006: http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html

Nice non-accident B-1, B-2, and B-52 photos here: http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers3.html