Flight Accidents in the 21st Century U.S. Air Force

The Facts of 40 Non-Combat Events

Henry Bond (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

138 Seiten

2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7402-5 (ISBN)

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Mid-flight non-combat malfunctions, mishaps, and blunders, occur frequently in the USAF during routine training and utility flights. The events surrounding accidents are meticulously gathered by USAF Investigators and a report is published in each case. Dr Bond has collected these reports over a number of years and presents his findings in this volume.

Mid-flight non-combat malfunctions, mishaps, and blunders, occur frequently in the USAF during routine training and utility flights—sometimes unfortunately with the loss of life and regularly with the destruction of a military aircraft with a value of tens of millions-of-dollars. In the most extreme case presented here a B-2 Spirit bomber crashed soon after takeoff and was destroyed with a value of $2.2 billion. The events surrounding such accidents are meticulously gathered by USAF Investigators and a report is published in each case. Dr Bond has collected these reports over a number of years including some made available to him following FOI—Freedom of Information—requests made directly to the relevant US Air Base. The original official accident reports are rife with military jargon and acronyms rendering them near-impenetrable to the lay-reader. Dr Bond has written up forty of the most indicative reports as a series of accessible-but-comprehensive case histories in plain non-technical language. The causes of such blunders and mishaps are often surprising and sometimes horrifying: bird-strikes, joy-riding, unauthorized maneuvers, pilot disorientation, or more prosaically, an unseen binoculars-case blocking the action of a plane’s joystick or unexpected moisture in an air-pressure gauge.

Henry Bond is senior lecturer in photography at Kingston University in Surrey, England.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

The Accidents

1 Pitch up

2 Number 3 engine idle

3 Landing strut

4 Caught a tailwind

5 Fly-by

6 Zero-G parabolas

7 Arctic Thunder

8 C-Bleed hot

9 Ground-rush in Germany

10 Flameout Volk

11 Mist-up AirVenture

12 Warthog seizure

13 Walan Rabat

14 Overshoot Shank

15 Paddy field

16 Communications mast

17 Titanium fire

18 Belly flop

19 Cut-up wake

20 Fuel-line shutoff

21 Flaps gone

22 Roll off the top

23 Spatial D

24 Dutch roll

25 Stockton impromptu

26 Okinawa corkscrew

27 Birdstrike Luke

28 Lights-out intercept

29 Racetrack gun pattern

30 Fuel-line leak

31 Cley goose strike

32 Domestic object

33 Down to Louisiana

34 Ghostrider

35 Fire by the microwave

36 Unseen traffic

37 Goggles case

38 Three-out takeoff

39 Inadvertent shutoff

40 Eject, dude

Conclusions

Sources

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	25 photographs
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	285 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10	1-4766-7402-7 / 1476674027
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7402-5 / 9781476674025
Zustand	Neuware