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2 F-16C Falcon jets collide/crash in Va. during training
Officials are trying to figure out how two F-16C Falcon aircraft collided on Thursday night off the coast of Chincoteague, Va. The F-16C jets were assigned to the 113th Wing D.C. Air National Guard and were part of a routine training mission off the coast of Chincoteague, Va. late Thursday night when they crashed, say officials. (www.wusa9.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
seems to me training needs more of a boost
No doubt Joe and more so at nite. The "burble" is often the cause = turbulence from crossing into the exhaust of the guy in front of you.
Amazing it doesn't happen more often with how close in formation they can get in some parts of a training mission. It only takes a little rough air to send two planes that close, into each other's flight paths.
When they're that close together, the same "rough air" affects both aircraft equally. I was fortunate to have a ride with the Snowbirds some years ago and they said that it's actually safer to fly *really* close together than just close because they move together.
When aircraft are flying together in formation, no "rough air" can possibly throw one aircraft into the flight path of the other without affecting the other one, too. Redirecting one into the flight path of the other doesn't happen from turbulence.
When aircraft are flying together in formation, no "rough air" can possibly throw one aircraft into the flight path of the other without affecting the other one, too. Redirecting one into the flight path of the other doesn't happen from turbulence.
We have learned nothing about mid-airs since the first one.
More likely the burble.