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It's of the YF-22 Lightning II, which if I remember correctly suffered a combination computer failure and pilot-induced oscillation causing the aircraft to porpoise into the ground on landing. Another F/A-22 was lost last year at Edwards for a similar reason on take-off, the computer crashed on start-up, the pilot failed to reboot, some critical component locked-up and the aircraft burned itself in along the runway.
Despite the incredible leaps in technology the F-22 project demonstrates, it has been a remarkably failure-free program.
Most new aircraft suffer some catastrophic failures as their manufacturers and operators learn about flaws in the design, that's why it's called "development."
The black flag is raised: Ban them all... Let the Admin sort them out.
I know I'm going to have the last word... I have powers of deletion and lock.
We should ground every aircraft that ever had a crash in the development phase. That would be pretty much all of them.
Wrong. The F-15 and F/A-18E/F never had a crash in developement. The F-14 had a problem with recovering from spins due to the wing design and lost the first one. Don't know about F-16.
by the way, thats not crashing, its testing.
I saw the exact same thing on discovery channel
they were just experimenting the effects of no gear landing
Yes, he did, but the tape was cut before it was done. The plane fell apart all over the runway. On the sight which I found this they said specifically that it was due to failure with the aircraft and no test. Don't believe the discovery channel when it comes to the military.
wow. how ignorant
the f-22 crash at nellis airforce was different from the video
It took off in full afterburners and did some 360+ spins before crashing onto the runway
if you've cared to see the actual video (which i have)
the f/a-22 takes off, goes into afterburner, begins to yaw, turns off afturburner, begin to pitch and roll, turn rearwards, then crash
I'm not denying the fact that f/a-22(s) crashed
i'm just saying that your video is not a video footage of the Nellis AFB crash
it isn' necessary USAF crashing the Raptor
It could have been lockheed martin testing its development fighters
The thing is the those bugs are worked out now
better than building a cheap jet and going through problems while on the front line
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