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Two F/A-18s lost

www.cnn.com/2002/US/West/10/18/f18s.crash/index.htmlThese are brand-new F/A-18F aircraft, about 30% bigger than the more familiar version introduced in the early 1980s, also designed to carry the...

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Without knowing much other than that it was "during dogfight manuevers", I will say that my opinion of American military pilots hasn't been that grand in the past 5 years. There have been a lot of...

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They've never had trouble finding people who wanted to be pilots, the tough spots to fill were the jobs nobody wants, like refueling techs, cooks, laundry workers, etc.Most of the mishaps with...

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Re: Two F/A-18s lost

If I was bright, I wouldn't be executing dogfight manuevers unless I was as familiar with the plane as I could get without executing dogfight manuevers. My supposition about the proportional quality...

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Re: Two F/A-18s lost

story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021020/ap_wo_en_po/us_military_crash_6These pilots were F-14 pilots who had flown over Afghanistan, so they knew the ins and outs of land and...

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The plane may have been brand new, but it was designed a long time ago (in fighter aircraft terms). And flying over Afghanistan, given that it resulted in combat with the crackshot (and also...

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Re: Two F/A-18s lost

Not really, F-14s over Afghanistan mostly flew escort for F/A-18Cs and EA-6s, they can't carry precision air-to-ground munitions, so they were mostly relegated to MIGCAP.

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