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Posted by Howard Johnson (Member # 62) on 01-12-2004, 01:53 PM:

I know that your George Bush didn't get a very good reception in the UK a few weeks ago but we didn't deserve this!!! I mean you could have hit Dick Vaughan at the National Museum of Film and Photography in Bradford ! Apparently a 15E Strike Eagle was on a training run from Lakenheath in Suffolk and the pilot dropped a 25lb practice bomb on Market Weighton. Perhaps he got bored and wanted tto liven things up! This happened at 5.15pm last thursday. See Yahoo news.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 01-12-2004, 03:30 PM:

Unless you want people to think you've just gone crazy, you should probably post an article.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=437639§ion=news

quote:
U.S. jet accidentally bombs Yorkshire
Mon 12 January, 2004 16:25

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States Air Force says it is investigating how one of its fighter jets dropped an unarmed bomb on the Yorkshire countryside last week.

There were no injuries and only "limited property damage" in the incident which happened around 5:15 p.m. last Thursday, a USAF spokesman said.

The 25 lb practice bomb was dropped by a F-15E Strike Eagle on a routine training run from a base at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, eastern England.

The bomb landed in a "sparsely-populated area" near the town of Market Weighton in Yorkshire, the spokesman added.

"Trained and experienced base personnel including Ministry of Defence, and local constabulary authorities responded to the scene and an investigation team is determining the cause the incident," the spokesman said.

Posted by Howard Johnson (Member # 62) on 01-12-2004, 04:22 PM:

Sorry Darryl I didn't know how to do pasting etc.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 01-12-2004, 06:23 PM:

No need to apologize, but figuring out how to copy and paste would be a good idea.

Assuming you're using a PC: http://members.aol.com/jaynecg/private/copy.html

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 01-12-2004, 08:33 PM:

Hey Howard...Any relation to THE Howard Johnson?

Mark

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-12-2004, 09:59 PM:

That method also works on da Mac, Daryl. Shows what you know.

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 01-12-2004, 10:00 PM:

Well, that was an easy war to win. Damn Yorkies and their pudding. [Razz]

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 01-12-2004, 10:01 PM:

I never said it wouldn't work with a Mac.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-13-2004, 02:05 AM:

Could you aim that big building in York city centre with lots of pointy bits sticking out of it next time please? I could make a bazillion turning that land into luxury flats and a multistory car park but there seems to be some religious cult or other squatting there...

Posted by Howard Johnson (Member # 62) on 01-13-2004, 03:37 AM:

Mark, do you mean the hotel & restaurant chain? I wish I was related!! Leo, how about that ugly building in Leeds I think that houses the social security or NHS?

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-13-2004, 04:26 AM:

...known as The Kremlin to the locals. I don't think that does the real Kremlin justice - it looks much prettier!

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 01-13-2004, 01:39 PM:

Howard thanks for your concern.

Holme on Spalding Moor,incidentally the location of a WW2 RAF bomber base, is quite a way from Bradford.

Not even the 48th TFW can miss the target by that much!

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 01-13-2004, 03:43 PM:

This happens from time to time in the USA as well. What is more dangerous is parts falling off the aircraft (such as engine cowlings, doors, etc.) such as what happened a month or so ago in our area. Four panels (one as big as 6 feet in length) fell off one of our EA6-B's and landed in back yards, and other places as well.

I remember one incident years back where the Douglas Skywarrior (A3-B) aircraft was on a practice loft bombing mission. When the aircraft snapped up to loft the inert bomb, one of the J-57 jet engines detached itself from the aircraft. The bomb missed the target, but the engine scored a bull's-eye. [Eek!]

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 01-13-2004, 11:41 PM:

A few years ago a comercial aricraft dumped it sewage holding tank at a great hight and it of course froze in its desent landing though a roof a family dwelling landing in the living room as a several ton pile of froozen [bs]

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-14-2004, 12:59 AM:

Ah yes, beware the "blue ice"! I'm not touching those "condensation nuclei". Nope, not gonna. Wouldn't be prudent...

Best blue ice incident I've seen was a few years ago in San Diego. A 727 had a slow leak in the forward lav service fitting. While in cruise, a large amount of blue ice formed aft of the fitting on the right side of the aircraft. When the jet began its descent into SAN the chunk eventually came off--and hit the intake of the #3 engine. The resulting imbalance caused the #3 engine to shear its mounts and leave the airplane. The crew figured they had just an in-flight engine failure--they didn't know they literally "lost an engine" until they landed and the tower told them. Search crews went out and found the engine in the desert about 80 miles east of SAN.

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 01-14-2004, 02:15 AM:

sounds like the shit really hit the fan!

carl

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 01-14-2004, 01:05 PM:

Nah...The manure hit the ventilator... [Big Grin]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 01-14-2004, 04:23 PM:

BTW: WTF is a "practice bomb"?

That makes as much sense as "Military Intelligence".

It reminds me of:

Here I sit broken hearted.
Came to shit,
But only farted.

A "practice crap"?

>>> Phil

Posted by Andy Muirhead (Member # 712) on 01-14-2004, 07:32 PM:

quote:
they didn't know they literally "lost an engine" until they landed and the tower told them. Search crews went out and found the engine in the desert about 80 miles east of SAN.

It wasn't in Donnie Darko's house, by any chance?

Low level sorties are a daily occurance round here, they often 'bomb' the castle near where I live (Floors Castle - It's where Tarzan came back to live in the film 'Greystoke'). That's on my road to work and I've lost count of the amount of times I've crapped myself driving to work when a Tornado screams over my car at 50ft.

I always thought their bombs were 'simulated' ie they didn't carry any dummy loads, now I'm worried!

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 01-15-2004, 12:34 AM:

It would be fun to drop a Vauxhall Viva right outside Leo Enticknap's place at about 4 a.m. I wish I could think of someone to call.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-15-2004, 01:42 AM:

My place was built in the late-sixteenth century, and apart from a bit of damp in the foundations is still there. The average lifespan of a Vauxhall Viva was about two weeks before they crumbled away to rust (did any of them survive the '70s?): I think the house would win! [Smile]

Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 01-15-2004, 02:41 PM:

Phil,

When the airforce does target practice they usually aren't trying to see how big a of a bang they can make but rather increase pilot accuracy when dropping ordanance. Using a real 500lb bomb, even if it was 'dumb', would not only be dangerous (as shown by this incident) but a waste of money.