JASDF F-15 suffers partial inflight breakup

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kilo delta

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...occurred at an airshow recently. I guess they don't make them like they use ta :isadizzy:

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That was tough to see even in slo-mo. Maybe an inspection panel or some such? Didn't appear to be really critical...unless the film was cropped off at that point!
 
I was expecting a re-enactment of the break up of the St. Louis ANG airplane. That's not too bad. The ANG airplane fuselage split around (below) the canopy and fell apart. That appears to be just like John said, an inspection panel. It didn't appear to affect the aircraft performance any.
 
F-15's are getting old. Even in peacetime, fighters lead a rough life. Those pieces falling off could have been burner petals.
 
Piglet said:
F-15's are getting old. Even in peacetime, fighters lead a rough life. Those pieces falling off could have been burner petals.
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I'm afraid that fighters have a shelf life. People need to under stand that planes NEED to be set back to the factory to be refurbished. Basicly strip them down to all parts, speck it all. If it don't pass replace it. If it dose reuse it.
 
Maybe it's just the angle of the shots but it looks to me like he lost the leading edge of the port horizontal stab. In the top image below you see it looking normal. In the second image something large is falling back and the dogtooth on the leading edge of the stab isn't visible anymore and the chord looks to be less. In the third image whatever fell off had seperated into two pieces. Again it might just be the angle but the stab isn't shaped the same anymore. JMHO
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I'm afraid that fighters have a shelf life. People need to under stand that planes NEED to be set back to the factory to be refurbished. Basicly strip them down to all parts, speck it all. If it don't pass replace it. If it dose reuse it.
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Slow down, son. Not the end of the world!:applause:We all know most planes have an airframe life limit. And that these planes usually go thru life-extension programs when their replacements fail to enter service on time!<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->
 
Piglet said:
Slow down, son. Not the end of the world!:applause:We all know most planes have an airframe life limit. And that these planes usually go thru life-extension programs when their replacements fail to enter service on time!<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->
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Life-extension programs are not living up to there name than or planes that have not been put in this "Life-extension program" need to be pulled off the flight line tell there safe to fly in combat conditions.
 
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