~HOLY SH*T~ F-14 Fly-by Explosion

I've never seen this Video on Ebaums forums but the accident Happened in 1995.If anyone knows the story behind please Post it.Thanks

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BAD DEAL. nice vid though. reps.
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[xylicon]

O_O Jesus wtf happened there! nice vid!

Wasnt easy to find but heres the report.

NWSA1066. USS Abraham Lincoln F-14 crashes at sea
AT SEA ABOARD USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (NWSA) -- Both air crew
from a U.S. Navy F-14A have been safely recovered following a
crash in the Pacific Ocean 800 miles west of Guam on Sept. 20.
The two aviators were safely recovered by a USS John Paul
Jones' (DDG 53) small boat shortly after their aircraft crashed
in the water approximately 56 miles from the aircraft carrier USS
Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). USS John Paul Jones is a part of the
Abraham Lincoln Battle Group.
The aircraft was from Fighter Squadron 213 (VF-213), based
at Naval Air Station Miramar, Calif. The squadron is part of
Carrier Airwing 11.
A helicopter from Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 6
(HS-6), based at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego,
returned the air crew to Abraham Lincoln.

No clue as to what happened though, cant find any official reports on it, maybe and accidental ejection or more likely a structural failure.

Very nice vid though, seen loads of the same vid, poor quality, but never with the follow through to the explosion. The vapour that you see around the plane has nothing to do with the accident, more climatic I think.
Anyways, if I new how to rep you i would for that contribution.

Anyone know if that vapor is from the transition past the sound barrier? It looks like there's a couple times where you can see it before it passes the ship...weird.

No clue as to what happened though, cant find any official reports on it, maybe and accidental ejection or more likely a structural failure.

Very nice vid though, seen loads of the same vid, poor quality, but never with the follow through to the explosion. The vapour that you see around the plane has nothing to do with the accident, more climatic I think.
Anyways, if I new how to rep you i would for that contribution.

That "Vapor" was the F-14 Breaking the Sound Barrier.

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I believe its purely climatic. As for the sound barrier, he is going fast but not that fast. No Bang, and you can clearly hear the jet engines as/or fractionaly after the F14 passes the ship.

The solo display was flown by a VF-101 Grim Reapers aircraft. This squadron with the grim reaper on the tail acts as a training squadron and belongs to the oldest and best known units of the US Navy. Because of the high air humidity, the F-14 generates a blanket of vapour at high speeds, this is sometimes mistaken for a sonic boom. Actually, this is due to the pressure conditions around the aircraft, and has nothing to do with supersonic speeds. Although the Tomcat is almost 30 years old, it has lost hardly anything of its fascination. Consequently, for fans of Navy jets the Neptune Festival is a must. Nowhere else in the world will you see as many F-14’s as in Oceana, at least for the next few years.

Heres a WEB LINK WITH PICS OF THE VAPOUR

Yeah that makes more sense as you can see the vapor come and go.

i have a cool video of a jet breaking the sound barrier and shows closeups of the change in the air behind it, i just cant host it, can anybody else?

special forces, breaking the sound barrier does not cause that vapor to appear.

oops somebody already posted that.

i have a video which proves that happens when it breaks the sound barrier, if i can get somebody to host it. the plane even drops a few feet in the air, its pretty cool!

at least i think it does, if not its still neat.

This I would bet was the cause of the explosion. I slowed it down frame for frame, heres a capture.

http://qwrety.cc/fby5.jpg

Looks like a port engine failure of sorts.

Vlerkies.... I cant quite see what your looking at? is it the sort of pole like thing sticking out the back?
Nice vid.
And i beleive breaking the sound barrier does cause vapor like that.
Reps.

If you look closely at the back of the aircraft in the first frame you see that thin streak protruding from the rear of the plane, its only there for 1 frame, the next to you have to look really closely and you can see a very faint smoke trail, difficult to see in the still images but if you import the movie into Windows movie maker 2 (free) and play it frame for frame its much more noticeable.
When a jet engine 'flames out for instance you get a puff of smoke from the fuel and the reeds trying to fire, but this is obviousely a bit more terminal.

As for the sound barrirer, this effect is common with anything moving fast in an area of high humidity and is caused by the changing air pressure around the object as it knifes its way through the air causing condensation to form. The speed at which this would occur depends on the shape of the object and the surrounding airpressure and % of humidity at the time.
You can witness this type of effect to a much lesser degree by watching formula1 for instance ( vortecies off the tailfins) when they race in high humidty conditions or on a normal aircraft on short final approach sometimes off the flaps and spoilers prior to landing.
It can happen before he breaks the sound barrier, during or after that.
The point to note is, If he did pass through the sound barrier at that point these folks on the deck would of known about it for sure with a loud cracking sound (like a extended firecracker going off) shortly after the flyby which is most certainly not present.
Heres more examples of this type of phenomenon.
http://www.photosig.com/go/photos/vi...56526&forward=
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache...4+vapour&hl=en

Anyway, I am not one to argue so lets just agree to disagree hehe, its still a wicked vid

[dogfight86]

The vapor disk happens when a fast aircraft flys through a pocket of humid air, which is normal right above the ocean. The air in front of the aircraft is being high compressed which causes the humid air to condense in to water which also heat, so basically it is making a cloud. Also if you see a plane bank you might see streams of the same vapor coming off its wings, thats the same idea, when the high pressure from below the wings meets the low pressure on top of the wings it will make vapors like clouds. There i have put you all to sleep