Swiss Pat F5 Crash in Holland

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Swiss Pat F5 Crash in Holland

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Swiss F5 crashed today pilot ejected
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Jeez, it's an epidemic.
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Jesus. That's the 4th display team aircraft in a few weeks. Let's hope for an incident free rest of season. :-(
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maiden757 wrote:Jesus. That's the 4th display team aircraft in a few weeks. Let's hope for an incident free rest of season. :-(
(amended as I've just seen Firebirds post on the Russian Knights)

Actually just week. As of my post it's been about 7 days and 3 hours since Thunderbird 6 "landed" without her pilot.
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That is really quite a lot of metal missing from a control surface, I know the F-5 is not as hot in the landing phase as it's cousin the T-38, but good job getting her down.
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That's testimony to the flight characteristics of the F-5 and also the quality of the structure. Well done to Northprop for that
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Still waiting to hear what happened with Thunderbird 6. There's a rumor floating around that it ran out of fuel.....
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Re: Swiss Pat F5 Crash in Holland

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The Air Force stated they removed 800lbs of fuel from the airframe plus fuel contaminated dirt... so there was some left on board.
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