Um...Sir? About the Van....

[chop456]

http://www.avweb.com/newspics/week0326_med.jpg

D'oh! :D

[devilmaster]

Umm, heh.....

whoops.

:D

Steve

[IlliniRacer]

Duuuuuude! Now I got a convertible! This is soooooo AWESOME.

[rabbit]

I got 20 bucks that say the driver of the van needs a clean change of underwear.:eek:

[cart7]

From the wing shape, I'd say that's a Harrier or a Tornado. Amazing, no apparent outward damage to the plane. :eek:

[chop456]

Originally posted by cart7
From the wing shape, I'd say that's a Harrier or a Tornado. Amazing, no apparent outward damage to the plane. :eek:

I thought that was pretty amazing, too.

My guess is that it's a Tornado because it appears to be a swing-wing.

[Miljax]

Originally posted by rabbit
I got 20 bucks that say the driver of the van needs a clean change of underwear.:eek:

I'll see your 20 and raise you 50...

[mapguy]

Originally posted by cart7
From the wing shape, I'd say that's a Harrier or a Tornado. Amazing, no apparent outward damage to the plane. :eek:

That's a MiG 23/27. The Tornado has multiple hard points per wing. whereas this one only has one.

[mapguy]

In this pic here you can see that the Tornado has two hard points (I also thought that this pic was too cool not to post also:) )

http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/tornado/images/tornado9.jpg

And here is a MiG-23F.

http://flyjet.virtualave.net/mig-23.GIF

[Ankf00]

strike craft everywhere, eat your hearts out.

Also from the shots of the wheel-wells, I think it's not a 23 b/c the tires and well cover on the 23 are swung out at an angle to my eyes and in the original photo the cover swings out squarely and the tires are straight below, or so it seems.

[RacinM3]

A buddy of mine who works for Lockheed sent me an email a few weeks ago with a couple of photos of this accident (including this one). Here was the text that was included:


What you see here is a German Navy Tornado Strike Fighter's left wingtip ECM pod doing a sheet metal check on a VW crew bus on a North German Navy base, apparently in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, near the Southern Denmark Border. Ya gotta love those narrow dispersal taxiways!

Tornado it is.

[JoeBob]

If you look closely, the roof of the van is hanging on whatever they've got hanging from the 2nd hardpoint. (You can even see the front of it poking through the roof of the van.)

It looks like whatever was hanging down took out the roof, not the wing itsself, hence the lack of damage to the wing.

[mapguy]

Well, I'm wrong. At least the pic is cool....

[SteveH]

Would love to find out what happened to the van driver. At least if the plane was moving, he could have claimed only partial responsibility. But the plane was parked and he still couldn't avoid it.

[Ankf00]

Good thing there wasn't a full crew along for the ride.

and man... those Panavia's are hot.