Breaking: F-15s scramble to intercept unresponsive plane West Palm Beach

a reply to: charlyv

Would there be any way to get into a flying aircraft by a person on a cable.

You mean like in the video below .


Best idea called the Fulton recovery method is around half way through .
en.wikipedia.org...

a reply to: hutch622

Too bad that with the Fulton system they lost as many as they recovered. They had a tendency to turn around and walk off the ramp after they were in the aircraft.

a reply to: hutch622

Oh, dang! I hope it wasn't Harrison Ford out flying around again!

(I'm older than he is.)

What a sound!

a reply to: charlyv

Quick response times by NORAD are standard during normal conditions, such as in the already mentioned Payne Stewart incident.

However, when training exercises such as the Vigilant Guardian series running in September 2001, NORAD's response time can become degraded.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Could they slide to a rescue plane on a zip line?

originally posted by: hutch622
a reply to: charlyv

Would there be any way to get into a flying aircraft by a person on a cable.

You mean like in the video below .

Best idea called the Fulton recovery method is around half way through .
en.wikipedia.org...

There's something God spared me from. I think I would have gone awol.

a reply to: Bedlam

There's something God spared me from. I think I would have gone awol.

The first man to test this is braver than the first man to try an oyster . According to wiki there was only one death .

a reply to: hutch622

They had this pneumatic pogo thing that was supposed to shoot you on top of multistory buildings, too.

If they miscalculated you hit the building, didn't quite make it and fell to your death or went over and splattered on the other side. Another sack full of nope as far as I am concerned.

a reply to: hutch622

On the other hand, they were screwing around with this one man flying platform thing that was sort of like the ones on the end credits of the original Jonny Quest and that would have been really cool.

Also there was a lithium powered paraglider you could hum in where you were unwelcome and that thing kicked butt.

a reply to: Bedlam

Just what you need , a lithium battery attached to your back .

originally posted by: hutch622
a reply to: Bedlam

Just what you need , a lithium battery attached to your back .

It's better than a lawn mower engine. At night you could sneak right in. During the day though, it's like a dozen piñatas drifting through. They're not very fast.

a reply to: hutch622


re:fulton
I believe richard marcinkos crazy ass was one of the first they asked to try it. Or at least thats his claim. He probably either hated it or loved it knowing his MO.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: hutch622

Too bad that with the Fulton system they lost as many as they recovered. ...

Well that would suck, wouldn't it!!

"What the...????? OOPS...uhhhhh, looks like we lost another one, skipper! Tell 'em to send in the guys with the garden rakes and the shop vac."

DP

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

It officially only happened once, but everything I've heard says it was more than that. The shock of the initial pull, and that swing up caused major disorientation, and when they were unclipped, they apparently thought they were going to sit down, turned and stepped off the ramp. They changed procedures to where they couldn't get unclipped until the loadmaster walked them over to a seat, and buckled them in place.

It's so easy to land on top of another aircraft....all the time back when.....

See and be seen is really iffy....

Those pics are great...never seen em, thanks

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: charlyv
A friend of my mother's, several years ago, was up in her biplane,minding her own business. Suddenly she noticed an F-16 off her wing, so she throws him a wave, thinking he just wanted to see her plane. He just looked back. Ut oh.

She started to get that not so good feeling when he signaled her to follow him. She looked over her shoulder, and oh look, another F-16. They directed her to an airfield where there weer lots of people waiting to get a look at her airplane.

It's situations like that pilots really train for!

I missed this.

I wish I would of known about it. I might of been able to see or hear some F-15's screaming north.

This is VT-JEX, operating as 9W-118 for Jet Airways, from Mumbai to London. They were intercepted over Cologne after going non responsive. Video was shot by a trailing aircraft.