F-18 loses part of its wing. What the what!?

It's not unheard of for them to actually trade paint on occasion.

The report said that a "small piece of its right wing" fell off, which could be as trivial as an access panel or something similar.


I highly doubt it looked like this
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USMCmech said:
Mid-air during a dogfight off of the SC coast, the other Hornet had it's nose knocked off.
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Ouch!
Are we talking the nose cone/radar cover? Or the nose section equaled an ejection capsule? Did they both make it? This is more interesting than the click bait.
 
Eh. A couple of years ago one of the Thunderbirds removed the missile rail off one of his wingtips with the elevelon of the plane next to him. The Blues also scrape the afterburners on the runway on takeoff occasionally.

When you're flying at the edge, sometimes you touch it.
 
msmspilot said:
Eh. A couple of years ago one of the Thunderbirds removed the missile rail off one of his wingtips with the elevelon of the plane next to him. The Blues also scrape the afterburners on the runway on takeoff occasionally.

When you're flying at the edge, sometimes you touch it.
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"Smack" Mack, the guy who had that midair on the T-Birds, didn't suffer any negative career impacts -- he went on to be the Wing Commander at Vance AFB, then go to the Pentagon and pin-on Brigadier General.

Hell, even the guy who crashed a T-Bird due to setting the wrong altimeter setting made rank and is climbing the leadership ladder....
 
Hacker15e said:
"Smack" Mack, the guy who had that midair on the T-Birds, didn't suffer any negative career impacts -- he went on to be the Wing Commander at Vance AFB, then go to the Pentagon and pin-on Brigadier General.

Hell, even the guy who crashed a T-Bird due to setting the wrong altimeter setting made rank and is climbing the leadership ladder....
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Didn't the Navy guy who shot down an AF guy make Admiral a year or two ago? You can screw up in the military, just make sure you do it right. :)
 
msmspilot said:
Didn't the Navy guy who shot down an AF guy make Admiral a year or two ago? You can screw up in the military, just make sure you do it right. :)
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The Senate shot him down.

Dorsey went into intel after losing his wings, then he got his law degree and was an IG. It probably didn't hurt that his dad was skipper of the America at the time of the shoot-down.
 
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Hacker15e said:
Hell, even the guy who crashed a T-Bird due to setting the wrong altimeter setting made rank and is climbing the leadership ladder....
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IIRC, that ejection was actually beyond the envelop of what the seat was certified for. Something like over 8000 FPM descent.

Its actually a miracle he survived.
 
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