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You Know Your Having A Bad Day When.............

Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:01 pm

The phrase ''blazing a trail'' takes on a whole mew meaning :shock: :?
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F-8E of VF-11 losed a main mount and goes off the angle deck of the FDR but the pilot got out. 8)

Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:59 pm

Yeah they do that when they sneeze.... :shock:

Lynn

Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:01 am

That photo gave me flashbacks to being a kid and getting a book on Aircraft carriers. Dug it off the shelf and here are 3 more from that event.

The before
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And the right after followed by the pilot going one way and the F8 into the drink.
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Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:34 am

Didn't the pilot wind up landing back on the flight deck and never got wet (except for one medium sized area of his flight suit)

Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:57 am

Bad start- bad end :(

Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:21 pm

Thanks be to the angle deck. :o
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