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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Incredible that there was no fire. Curious that ejection prompted a nose up attitude...


3 posted on 05/23/2019 5:37:14 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

I saw the same thing. According to early reports, the pilot was doing an emergency landing due to hydraulic problems and ejected due to controllability problems. The video does seem to confirm that. Notice that the plane pitched up AFTER the seat/pilot were already out. The seat going out pushes the nose down. The fact that the plane did a pitch-up significantly after the seat was out tells me that there was an unusual transient in the flight control system. The CSFDR download (Crash Survivable Flight Data Recorder) should be very interesting on this one. The good thing is that the jet is in good enough condition that they should be able to pull other flight data recorders (there’s a lot of things in the F-16 that yield flight data) and the Flight Control Computer, download from that should be interesting, too.


14 posted on 05/23/2019 9:54:27 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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