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Supersonic F/A-18C Hornet bursts into flame on aircraft carrier flight deck By David Gewirtz | April 15, 2011, 5:05am PDT Summary Here's a shoutout to everyone on the crew, and especially the intrepid pilot who came home safely and brought his injured bird in for an incredible landing. David Gewirtz As a child, David Gewirtz discovered he was a geek sometime during the middle of the Johnson administration. He is the author of How To Save Jobs: Reinventing Business, Reinvigorating Work, and Reawakening the American Dream and Where Have All The Emails Gone? How Something as Seemingly Benign as White House Email Can Have Freaky National Security Consequences. He is the executive director of the U.S. Strategic Perspective Institute, founder of the ZATZ technical magazines, a CNN contributor, and the cyberterrorism advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals. Fire is one of the most serious hazards aboard any ship at sea, and is a particularly serious problem among warfighting vessels. On Monday, an F/A-18C Hornet burst into flames as one of its engines gave out. Even with one engine and the entire back of the plane on fire, the pilot (a member of the Stingers, VFA-113 <http://vfa-113.ahf.nmci.navy.mil/> ) managed to bring the craft in for a landing on the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson (CVN-70). The Hornet design is old, dating all the way back to the 1970s. It's a very versatile craft, able to fight air-to-air and air-to-ground. While this one had a severe engine fire, the F/A-18C has been a very reliable airframe for more than 30 years. The video above shows the extraordinary efforts used to manage flight deck fires. The image quality isn't the best, but you can still see exactly what happens and it's very impressive. One note of disclosure: I took a couple of cruises on the Vinson in a "civilian capacity" back in the day (which is all I can really say). Back then, as now, it had an exceptional crew. Here's a shoutout to everyone on the crew, and especially the intrepid pilot who came home safely and brought his injured bird in for an incredible landing. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
