Seriously? A rocket

[Breadburner]

To bad it didn't hit Paul Tay.....

[Conan71]

Back about 1996, an air guard F-15 or 16 ran into trouble north of Tulsa.  It was very low cloud cover that night.  The pilot punched out and was fine.  The plane left a smoking hole in the ground between Skiatook High School and the Skiatook airport and narrowly missed a residential area.  If I remember right this one did not come from Ok. Air Guard but Arkansas.

I was taking flying lessons at the time.  After the Feds had released the airspace a couple days later, my instructor and I just had to fly up and see what it looked like from the air.

I had the privelege of seeing another Air Guard fighter dead stick in from a rooftop at Boeing at TUL about a year after that.  We were doing some work on a cooling tower on a rooftop when five planes took off.  About ten minutes later, the fire trucks rolled out.  Within a few minutes we saw two of the fighters come into view.  One of the planes was noticeably quiet, he made a perfect landing right on the numbers of runway 26 without power as the other one hit the throttle and disappeared back to the north.  

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by Breadburner

To bad it didn't hit Paul Tay.....

I agree, highly unfortunate.

[Wrinkle]

Couldn't help but wonder if Ms. Kitty was calling in air strikes now instead of trying to collect $1,000/day for derilected properties.

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by twizzler

I can't wait to hear what altruismsuffers has to say about this.....

The building put a hole in itself, framed the national guard.

[patric]

The Air National Guard office in Tulsa just sent us more information about this incident.

   At approximately 2:57 pm yesterday an F-16 fighter aircraft departed the Tulsa Air National Guard Base in route to Smokey Hill Gunnery Range in Salina Kansas on a routine mission. Shortly after take off a BDU 33, a practice non-explosive training bomb weighing approximately 22 pounds, inadvertently released from the aircraft.

   A safety investigation board was convened and an investigation is on going.

   The Oklahoma Air National Guard is thankful that no injuries or loss of life happened as a result of this training incident. We are responding and working along side other state partners to determine the facts of the incident.

[sgrizzle]

Giant image, but here is what it looks like on an f-16. Pretty small actually...

http://www.944fw.afrc.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/041208-F-0000P-001.jpg

[Townsend]

Can't find anything about the alien microbes released in this military experiment gone awry.

[Breadburner]

I would still want it on the mantle......

[patric]

My mind cant help but wonder a bit, and speculate as to the hypothetical outcome had this instead been a nuke being quietly transported through Tulsa International.
I guess we'd never really know until something went wrong...

Would have made December's ice storm a refreshing diversion by comparison.

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

quote:Originally posted by twizzler

I can't wait to hear what altruismsuffers has to say about this.....

The building put a hole in itself, framed the national guard.

You are way ahead. Alt would first have to consult Alex Jones, John Conner, and perhaps Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul so someone could give him that opinion.