F/A-18 Hornet Down, Washington State, Pilot Ejects, 6/13/26

Wait, we know this is going to happen two days from now?? Witchcraft!!
 
Velocity173 said:
VR route, did two loops around Rim Rock Lake, lead dropped down low, clipped the side of the mountain, ripped the wing tanks off, ejected soon after.
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That would explain the one video I saw that I suspected was AI. The aircraft had two vapor/smoke trails, but they appeared outboard of the engines. About where the wing tanks should have been...
 
midwestpa24 said:
That would explain the one video I saw that I suspected was AI. The aircraft had two vapor/smoke trails, but they appeared outboard of the engines. About where the wing tanks should have been...
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Yeah I initially thought that vid might be AI as well but there’s a new vid making the rounds that shows him clip that last mountain.

 
midwestpa24 said:
That would explain the one video I saw that I suspected was AI. The aircraft had two vapor/smoke trails, but they appeared outboard of the engines. About where the wing tanks should have been...
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A number of people have said that the second "vapor" trail looked more like a fuel dump. Question is why?

It will be a while until we know, but it will be interesting if we find out why. My guess is just pushing the envelope too far. There's a reason we want our fighter pilots to push the envelope... But we also need them to bring the planes back to fly another day.
 
midwestpa24 said:
That would explain the one video I saw that I suspected was AI. The aircraft had two vapor/smoke trails, but they appeared outboard of the engines. About where the wing tanks should have been...
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Can't imagine there would be any fuel left in the drops that long after takeoff unless they air refueled before entering the route. We usually had empty drops on the EA-6B by the time we got to altitude.
 
M20K said:
A number of people have said that the second "vapor" trail looked more like a fuel dump. Question is why?

It will be a while until we know, but it will be interesting if we find out why. My guess is just pushing the envelope too far. There's a reason we want our fighter pilots to push the envelope... But we also need them to bring the planes back to fly another day.
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Don’t know about a second Vapor trail. Only fuel I saw was pouring out from where the tanks were attached to the wings. Fuel dump would go out the top of the vert stabs.
 
Jim_R said:
Wait, we know this is going to happen two days from now?? Witchcraft!!
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Not Witchcraft at all, just basic physics.

While executing the ultimate USMC combat aviation maneuver, a "super-liminal reverse-jerk," his turbofans cavitated at a quantum level, creating a localized tachyonic slipstream that compressed the space-time metric. As the F/A-18 achieved negative Mach velocity relative to Earth's rotation, the pilot uncertain of who might recover this advanced technology prudently punched out. The resulting retrocausal vector footprint of ejection sent his mass directly through a Minkowski wormhole. Which effectively removed the pilot from the timeline forty-eight hours in the absolute future and decelerated him safely into today.

Simple. :cool:
 
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