Belgian technician accidentally blows up two F-16s with 6,000 rounds pm Gatling gun

[2hats]

 

[pogofish]

Aren’t there other safeguards to prevent jacked-up aircraft’s loaded canons being fired accidentally? Aren’t computers involved in this kind of stuff ?

Often its as simple as that little red strip of cloth, attached to a pin:

 

[Grump]

It is worth remembering that Belgian F-16s are built by SABCA, who also built, under licence, that paragon of aircraft reliability, the Lockheed F104-G..!

Your post made me look up the F104 as it has always been an aircraft that intrigued me and I found this idea for a new life for the plane-http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160826-the-1950s-jet-launching-tiny-satellites?ocid=ww.social.link.email

 

[ffsear]

Can he still claim to have shot down 2 f16's ? 1 more and that makes him an Ace.

 

[kebabking]

Can he still claim to have shot down 2 f16's ? 1 more and that makes him an Ace.

its three more - 5 makes an ace.

 

[mrs quoad]

its three more - 5 makes an ace.

Still, he's probably Belgian's leading fighter shooter downer atm.

Particularly with a Gatling (!) Can't imagine they get too many plane kills these days!

 

[DownwardDog]

its three more - 5 makes an ace.

5 is very hard. Nobody has done it since Gen. Zandi (god of all F-14 ops) did it in the Iraq-Iran war. The Ayatollah let him out the prison, wherein he was interred for lack of revolutionary zeal, to do it.

 

[DownwardDog]

Still, he's probably Belgian's leading fighter shooter downer atm.

Particularly with a Gatling (!) Can't imagine they get too many plane kills these days!

Remy van Lierde shot down 50 V1s (among many other things) to protect London. He won 2 x DFC and was KIA in 1945.

 

[kebabking]

5 is very hard. Nobody has done it since Gen. Zandi (god of all F-14 ops) did it in the Iraq-Iran war. The Ayatollah let him out the prison, wherein he was interred for lack of revolutionary zeal, to do it.

probably only likely to get harder given the worldwide reductions in aircraft strengths - when i was a teenager the RAF had 400 (ish) fast jets, its got to be at about 150 now, Argentina had 100 or so '82, they're at half a dozen, if that, SE2's now... difficult to shoot down swaithes of jets than nobody ordered.

 

[nuffsaid]

What a Wal...loon.

 

[OzT]

Remy van Lierde shot down 50 V1s (among many other things) to protect London. He won 2 x DFC and was KIA in 1945.

Think he died in 1990

 

[gosub]

Worst dogfight ever

Talking of dogfights

 

[A380]