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Runaway Sparrow PHOTOS
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Spaceman Spiff
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"whoops...thought that was the talk button...hehheh...am I cleared for takeoff? (before the skipper kicks my a$$)" I thought it was photoshopped at first but dam, that happened huh?
Kris
Kris
Spaceman Spiff
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Your title says runaway sparrow but that's one of the AIM-9 Sidewinder variants scootin' across the deck.
Kris
Kris
dawgfighter
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Yup. Looks like there is no flame coming out the back of that there ordnance.
"Let's boogie!"
GO NAVY!!!
"Let's boogie!"
GO NAVY!!!
This actually happens all the time with blue wepons. On one WESTPAC it happened at least twice a month.
When I first saw it happen, I was standing on the catwalk between EL1 and EL2 looking across the deck. I was shaking when I saw the missile bouncing across the deck. I got over it pretty quick because the next trap, or bolter, the pilot ejected and the hornet went in the sink.
When I first saw it happen, I was standing on the catwalk between EL1 and EL2 looking across the deck. I was shaking when I saw the missile bouncing across the deck. I got over it pretty quick because the next trap, or bolter, the pilot ejected and the hornet went in the sink.
Randy Haskin
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From the recent TR deployment.
For what it's worth, those photos predate the Roosevelt's deployment by a long shot. The ones I saved to my hard drive from the binaries newsgroup are dated 1 Sept 2001. Since the TR pulled out of port a week after Sept 11th, I'm doubting they were taken then.
That's how bad internet rumors get started, like Dale Snodgress' tactical demo pass on the USS America misconstrued as some dude on the Stennis who got grounded after showboating.
Not sure what kind of launcher rails the Hornet uses, but the LAU-128 that we have on the F-15E uses a rotating cam-lock to secure CAP-9s in place after they're slid on from the front. If that lock isn't rotated, and the airplane experiences a rapid deceleration (like a trap), it's gonna slide off the front of the rail.
Also, I'm not altogether sure that's a blue missile -- it looks like a yellow band around the warcranium section and a brown band around the rocket motor section. Plus, in the AF at least, our captive heaters do not have rollerons on the fins like the one pictured does.
From the recent TR deployment.
For what it's worth, those photos predate the Roosevelt's deployment by a long shot. The ones I saved to my hard drive from the binaries newsgroup are dated 1 Sept 2001. Since the TR pulled out of port a week after Sept 11th, I'm doubting they were taken then.
That's how bad internet rumors get started, like Dale Snodgress' tactical demo pass on the USS America misconstrued as some dude on the Stennis who got grounded after showboating.
Not sure what kind of launcher rails the Hornet uses, but the LAU-128 that we have on the F-15E uses a rotating cam-lock to secure CAP-9s in place after they're slid on from the front. If that lock isn't rotated, and the airplane experiences a rapid deceleration (like a trap), it's gonna slide off the front of the rail.
Also, I'm not altogether sure that's a blue missile -- it looks like a yellow band around the warcranium section and a brown band around the rocket motor section. Plus, in the AF at least, our captive heaters do not have rollerons on the fins like the one pictured does.
My apologies if this is in fact incorrect info on the photos posted. I tried finding out the creation date to these but whenever I downloaded them from the e-mail I received, they had a date of the day I downloaded them.
Maybe one day the deck hand pictured will find this site and tell us the whole story.
Maybe one day the deck hand pictured will find this site and tell us the whole story.
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