Thunderbird/ Blue Angel Crashes

[Salt USMC]

No it is Obama's fault.

Relevant: President Obama meets Thunderbirds pilot after crash in Colorado Springs

 

[Blizzard]

Relevant: President Obama meets Thunderbirds pilot after crash in Colorado Springs

To apologize?

 

[Red Flag 1]

I'm not sure if this a photo op or not, but it is a rare event.

 

[AWP]

This is a really crappy month for demonstration teams.

Russia grounds entire fleet of Su-27 fighter jets after deadly crash | Fox News

Russia grounded its entire fleet of Sukhoi-27 fighter jets Thursday after an apparent technical glitch caused one of the aircraft to crash near Moscow, killing the pilot.

 

[Raptor]

Patrouille Suisse jet crashes after collision at Leeuwarden airbase. Fourth incident in one week

Here's another one

 

[Red Flag 1]

This is a really crappy month for demonstration teams.

Russia grounds entire fleet of Su-27 fighter jets after deadly crash | Fox News

Concur. I was thinking that a stand down for the F-16's might be in order. I'm sure it has been happening at the operational Wing level. Prolly not a bright idea to open post stand downs during a wartime footing.

 

[AWP]

Concur. I was thinking that a stand down for the F-16's might be in order. I'm sure it has been happening at the operational Wing level. Prolly not a bright idea to open post stand downs during a wartime footing.

The DoD releases that info and even if it didn't, aviation blogs would have the info within 48 hours.

 

[DA SWO]

Concur. I was thinking that a stand down for the F-16's might be in order. I'm sure it has been happening at the operational Wing level. Prolly not a bright idea to open post stand downs during a wartime footing.

16's have known engine problems, (one reason why the F-22/35 programs were/are important).

I'll go on a limb here and say the T-bird crash is fuel or engine related and the SCANG crash was guys being aggressive.
The Blue Angel report may be interesting, we lose what? 12-24 Fighters every year? AF Safety Center use to put a forecast out every FY predicting the number and types of frames they thought we'd lose, staggering numbers.

 

[Devildoc]

AF Safety Center use to put a forecast out every FY predicting the number and types of frames they thought we'd lose, staggering numbers.

I am not certain of the Navy's SOP, but they do the same thing.

 

[AWP]

And the Swiss decided to participate. 4 teams, 5 aircraft, 2 dead, 2 ejected, 1 landed safely...all in one week.

Blue skies.

Patrouille Suisse jet crashes after collision at Leeuwarden airbase. Fourth incident in one week

One of the Tiger jets managed to land in spite of the damages whereas the other aircraft crashed: fortunately, the pilot was able to eject from the plane suffering only few cuts and bruises.

 

[Red Flag 1]

16's have known engine problems, (one reason why the F-22/35 programs were/are important).

I'll go on a limb here and say the T-bird crash is fuel or engine related and the SCANG crash was guys being aggressive.
The Blue Angel report may be interesting, we lose what? 12-24 Fighters every year? AF Safety Center use to put a forecast out every FY predicting the number and types of frames they thought we'd lose, staggering numbers.

When the first Falcons deployed to USAFE, the birds preceeded any replacement parts. Conequently, more than a few were turned into parts aircraft. It took nearly a month for enough parts showed up for all aircraft to be mission ready. One thing the we all were happy about, is that you could carry on phone conversations when the Falcons launched. They cut the nois level to almost a whisper, after hearing the F-4 thunderous launches.

 

[BloodStripe]

Didn’t think it was worthy of its own thread, but famed pilot Rob Holland was killed in a crash this week. He was a hell of a pilot

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Didn’t think it was worthy of its own thread, but famed pilot Rob Holland was killed in a crash this week. He was a hell of a pilot

Thanks for showing an amazing performance, and not the crash.

 

[AWP]

TLDR: The pilot and manufacturer made some modifications to the elevators which probably caused the crash. The video is about 4 minutes long.

NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Holland Accident | FLYING Magazine