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Picture of the Day: Eagle over the Ocean
By John
Enjoy the pictures of them flying, cause that's all you'll be seeing of the ole' Eagles for a while.
An F-15 Eagle flies over the Pacific during Valiant Shield Aug. 9. Following the crash of an F-15 Nov. 2., all non-mission essential F-15 flight operations has been suspended until completion of the investigation. Photo Courtesy of the US Air Force.
"I worry about the health of our aging fleet and how sometimes it is not well understood by those our Airmen protect," said the general. "The investigation will get to the cause of the accident. In the meantime, we'll continue to provide air supremacy for the Afghan National Army and the collective NATO, coalition and U.S. forces on the ground."The Air Force grounded its F-15 fleet on Nov. 3 following the crash of a Missouri Air National Guard F-15C Eagle Nov. 2. F-15s assigned North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Central Command Air Forces will be on ground alert and fly missions if required.
Uh yeah. Glad to hear we'll still be providing air supremacy over the Taliban, despite the fact that we could do that with a Cessna. Still, the Air Force is wise to use this as a sales pitch for buying new planes. Our birds are crashing because they're effing old. Most of the 15s were built when disco was still cool. If it was ever cool, that is.
Creaky stuff.
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As I have posted in the past, we should be building newer Eagles, It is a proven airframe plus we still have all the tooling and jigs. I worked on the eagle for over a dozen years. We know the weak points and what needs to be updated and modified.
The Strike Eagle is the most effective Fighter-Bomber in the world bar none.
As far as the Mizzo Guard Eagle crash, what caused it? did a wing come off or what?
We always had groundings when a crash occured in the past this is nothing new.