F-22 Crash at Eglin

amullis · by **amullis** » 15 May 2020, 21:11

https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... afely.html

awsome · by **awsome** » 16 May 2020, 15:09

Glad the pilot is ok. This reminds me a bit of that old song "99 bottles of beer on the wall". How long can the fleet sustain this slow trickle of losses?

mixelflick · by **mixelflick** » 17 May 2020, 18:21

edpop wrote:The crash was Obama's fault or the Democrats or the Chinese virus according to Trump.

Most here don't have TDS or alternatively, come here to get away from those with TDS. The pilot is safe, that's all that matters. Yes, the fleet is small but they'll do whatever they need to do to keep them relevant. Nobody wants to see a Raptor lost, but if it has to happen... better it be a training bird vs. combat coded IMO.

wrightwing · by **wrightwing** » 17 May 2020, 19:18

awsome wrote:Glad the pilot is ok. This reminds me a bit of that old song "99 bottles of beer on the wall". How long can the fleet sustain this slow trickle of losses?

Well at the current rate, it'll be the 2060s before losses affect combat squadron strength.

zero-one · by **zero-one** » 18 May 2020, 16:26

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2 ... -are-left/

That’s 17 F-22s the Air Force can afford to lose in crashes or in combat before existing squadrons must start cutting their flyable strength.

on a side note

Meanwhile America’s other stealth fighter, the ground-attack-optimized F-35, proved to be a mediocre dogfighter. Design flaws also have limited the F-35’s ability to fly at supersonic speeds.

quicksilver · by **quicksilver** » 18 May 2020, 16:43

Quoting Axe again eh?

XanderCrews · by **XanderCrews** » 18 May 2020, 20:29

quicksilver wrote:Quoting Axe again eh?

When will they learn?

XanderCrews · by **XanderCrews** » 18 May 2020, 20:33

zero-one wrote:https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/05/15/an-f-22-stealth-fighter-just-crashed-how-many-are-left/

That’s 17 F-22s the Air Force can afford to lose in crashes or in combat before existing squadrons must start cutting their flyable strength.

on a side note

Meanwhile America’s other stealth fighter, the ground-attack-optimized F-35, proved to be a mediocre dogfighter. Design flaws also have limited the F-35’s ability to fly at supersonic speeds.

Axe was one of the F-22s most outspoken critics at the time. I like to think he helped do a great job of ginning up a lot of the outrage that helped get it curtailed.

Corsair1963 · by **Corsair1963** » 18 May 2020, 23:54

David Axe as usual has no idea what he is talking about. Honestly, who would even pay this guy to write anything??? :doh:

charlielima223 · by **charlielima223** » 19 May 2020, 01:49

Corsair1963 wrote:David Axe as usual has no idea what he is talking about. Honestly, who would even pay this guy to write anything???

Much like anti-gunners that push for large sweeping gun control measures, they dont know what they're talking about to make a reasonably informed position on the matter.

weasel1962 · by **weasel1962** » 19 May 2020, 10:51

That's the 5th F-22 destroyed (if they don't somehow patch it back together) in 20 years and the last destroyed was in FY 2013. At that rate by 2060, that loss rate still won't impact squadron strength.

This is a plane that survived a direct hit by a class 5 hurricane. Can't think of any other plane that has.

doge · by **doge** » 16 Mar 2021, 16:59

https://www.airforcemag.com/f-22-experi ... -at-eglin/

F-22 Experiences In-Flight Emergency, Ground Mishap at Eglin
March 15, 2021 | By Brian W. Everstine
An F-22 assigned to the 325th Fighter Wing experienced an in-flight emergency and a subsequent mishap upon landing March 15 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
The pilot was transported to the base’s flight medicine clinic for an evaluation immediately after landing, Eglin said in a statement.

The F-22 landed safely around 3:30 p.m., and there were no details available on the aircraft’s condition. Fire crews responded immediately.
The incident is under investigation, according to Eglin.

It is the second F-22 mishap involving the wing in less than a year. On May 15, 2020, an F-22 from the wing’s 43rd Fighter Squadron crashed north of the base. The pilot in that incident ejected safely. The Air Force has not released its findings into the crash.
After a hurricane struck nearby Tyndall Air Force Base in 2018, the Air Force moved most of the F-22s that had been based there to other bases, including Eglin.

sprstdlyscottsmn · by **sprstdlyscottsmn** » 16 Mar 2021, 17:56

That'll buff out.

jetblast16 · by **jetblast16** » 16 Mar 2021, 20:25

For a few million dollars lol

zhangmdev · by **zhangmdev** » 16 Oct 2021, 05:30

4022 crash site photo shows F119 engine rotor.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your ... last-year/

Newly obtained documents offer a clearer picture of an F-22 Raptor’s demise in Florida last year when it crashed near Eglin Air Force Base during training with other fighter jets.

After more than a year of silence on the mishap, the Air Force said in August the jet crashed because of a “maintenance error made after the aircraft was washed” that “impacted control inputs transmitted to the aircraft.”

: raptor 4022 wreckage