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Hornet down in VA Beach

Interesting that they mention the crew might have gained a few seconds by raising the landing gear...with the right engine being the first to go, I doubt the gear would have come up at all, unless residual hydraulic pressure alone was enough to raise it.
 
armada1651 said:
Interesting that they mention the crew might have gained a few seconds by raising the landing gear...with the right engine being the first to go, I doubt the gear would have come up at all, unless residual hydraulic pressure alone was enough to raise it.
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C'mon now, let's not start inserting actual aircraft system knowledges and common sense :)
 



Thought this video was pretty interesting. Toward the end of clip it shows one of the pilots being treated in someone's patio.
 
I realize it's the era we live in, but I think this guy is a bit douchey for filming this with his own commentary inserted.
 
Probably not very smart and/or helpful to be driving around a semi-disaster scene while filming with your phone/video camera. He's clearly obstructing traffic and emergency services and making things more hazardous.

All out of morbid curiosity masked as concern for his mom (who he conveniently forgot the moment he got something more interesting to film).

Douche.
 
Probably not very smart and/or helpful to be driving around a semi-disaster scene while filming with your phone/video camera. He's clearly obstructing traffic and emergency services and making things more hazardous.

All out of morbid curiosity masked as concern for his mom (who he conveniently forgot the moment he got something more interesting to film).

Douche.
 
I hate to say it but they should have never closed NAS Cecil field......this plane would have landed in a bunch of pine trees vs. an apartment complex. They have said that this would happen at that airfield, and it will happen again until they solve the problem of the population around the airfield or close it and move it somewhere else...
 
It would have made more sense to move Oceana to Cecil - I've heard that the option has been discussed several times recently but can you imagine the amount of money that would be needed now to turn Cecil back in to an NAS?
 
707guy said:
It would have made more sense to move Oceana to Cecil - I've heard that the option has been discussed several times recently but can you imagine the amount of money that would be needed now to turn Cecil back in to an NAS?
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In a perfect world, but the Norfolk/Va Beach area has been the primary home to the Atlantic Fleet since well before WWII. The synergy of having the air assets there w/ the ships would be lost if the air wings all moved to Cecil. JMHO.
 
I think it speaks volumes for the changes NAVAIR has gone through in the last 20 years. Most of your TACAIR at one base vs. when I was in CVW-8 in the late 80's we had two Tomcat squadrons and two Intruder squadrons out of Oceana, E-2's out of Norfolk, two F/A-18 squadrons and S-3s out of Cecil, HS out of Jax and our EA-6Bs from Whidbey.
 
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