Yaworski
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I remember reading about that, oh so many decades ago. Incredible story.
UFO collides with F-16 over restricted airspace
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I remember reading about that, oh so many decades ago. Incredible story.
Just a thought. How about a light weight object of any kind or type that the jet passed under and the wind turbulence sucked the object down into the jet. And it happened to hit the canopy. The object was hard or sharp enough to break it.
Heck a street thug can throw broken spark plug porcelain at a car side window and break the glass easy. (Street slang: Ninja Rocks) Just try and break the same glass with your fist.
Heck a street thug can throw broken spark plug porcelain at a car side window and break the glass easy. (Street slang: Ninja Rocks) Just try and break the same glass with your fist.
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Several things we don't know about this: Altitude, speed, dogfighting or not, weather,
Maybe it was the Nash Rambler from the song Beep Beep!!
Unlikely Yoda was flying the UFO, his has a bumper stick on it with:
"If read this you can too close you are.". and the F-16 pilot could have evaded!
"If read this you can too close you are.". and the F-16 pilot could have evaded!
They really actually did have a problem with getting stuck in second gear when they got too hot. The austin 40 wasent meant for america's long distances.
We come in peace, shoot to kill, Scotty Beam Me UP!
I was once travelling on an interstate on my crotch rocket at a bit over the posted seed of 65 and I saw a white "thing" up ahead of me in what appeared to be a floating pattern like a sheet of paper.
Well, it came down on the back of my helmet with a THUD, and I looked in my mirror and it looked like a white plastic cutting board bouncing around the pavement. It ruined my helmet.
The air can do some strange things to solid objects. Just think of all the motorcycle riders that do not wear head and body protection. My helmet saved my life that day for sure.
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Canopies are Lexan.
dweis gave the answer in post #19 on the first page by the way.... it was a UAS (un-crewed areal system) and the real question is who was flying the drone....
I actually have a UAS pilots license with the FAA for my work.
I actually have a UAS pilots license with the FAA for my work.
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Y'all are so cute. You actually believe the government
Seen a bird strike bust the canopy on an F-105.
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Is that the voice of Jack Nicholson?
Hollywood voicemaster frank welker.
I remember that story. 1967, It happened along the Belt parkway. A good portion is close to Jamaica Bay waters edge & not much above sea level.FWIW, unusual events do occur - for example, this woman got hit by a space rock:
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I remember reading about another incident, years ago, that stuck in my memory because I owned the same type of firearm involved. There was a woman driving down a road back east, near a body of water (Long Island Sound?). She had one of the back windows in her car rolled down an inch or two; while she was driving, a bullet came through that tiny opening and killed her. The police assumed it was a sniper, and because the victim had no obvious enemies, they assumed it was a criminal firing at random vehicles. Unable to locate any evidence (shell casings, etc.) near the crime scene, the police started knocking on doors in the vicinity, and asking if anyone had seen or heard anything unusual.
Early in that process, they spoke with a resident who had been out on his boat the day of the shooting. He told officers that he kept a surplus Lee-Enfield on his boat, and while out that day, he had popped off one .303 round, aimed down at the water, to verify that the ammunition hadn't become inert due to age and moisture. Apparently the projectile that killed the driver matched the boat owner's ammunition.
The odds of a single rifle round fired from a boat on the water, actually hitting a moving vehicle at long range (whether aimed or not) were exceedingly small. Furthermore, the distance was so great that the bullet would probably have failed to enter the vehicle, if the car window was closed. And the angle and timing had to be exactly right, for the bullet to actually strike the driver inside the vehicle. What were the odds? Who knows, but I doubt that the result could be reproduced, no matter how much time, effort, and money you threw at it.
Sometimes, very unlikely events (like winning the lotto, or getting killed by a ricochet fired a mile away ;^) do occur. I'm not saying the fighter got hit by a space rock, but it certainly isn't impossible...
Short segment of this vid. 13 min.
