Another AF Crash

[fighter25]

Well there goes 1 Billion down the drain.

[Slotback]

$5 that it was an elevon problem causing the right wing to drag.

[expat]

$5 that it was an elevon problem causing the right wing to drag.

Does an aircraft that is a wing have a left and right wing in the first place

Matt

[OVERLORD_CHRIS]

Maybe he was playing flight sim on laptop, and went to turn off the motors on the sim, and did it by mistake on the real plane, and then tried to hit Ctrl+E to restart before he remembered where he was. :-?

[Anark]

They've apparantly got the cause.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/06/06/cr ... ef=topnews
Moisture in the sensors.

[C]

They've apparantly got the cause.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/06/06/cr ... ef=topnews
Moisture in the sensors.

Oh dear. Couldn't happen on a proper aeroplane.

[Souichiro]

And here is the vid

http://www.break.com/index/b2-stealth-b ... ashes.html

[expat]

probly something tiny like a fragment of a crump from a ruffles potato chip in the engines

it will be something small...

No, moisture in some plugs

Here is the crash report along with a video of the full crash that did not make the news at the time.............no idea why not though This video also has commentary.

Crash report and video

Matt

[Ivan]

Just look at the rotate point... the first one goes OK, but the second one thinks he has RATO tubes...