{"id":27375,"date":"2013-12-11T02:02:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27375"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:13:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:13:54","slug":"bird-strike-responsible-for-t-38-crash-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/11\/bird-strike-responsible-for-t-38-crash-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Strike Responsible for T-38 Crash in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/air-force\/air-force-bird-strike-caused-wreck-of-8m-jet-1.256948\">has reported<\/a> that a T-38 that <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/t-38-crashes-in-texas-crew-ejects\/\">crashed in July<\/a> near Sheppard Air Force Base was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/467700\/t-38c-talon-accident-investigation-complete.aspx\">brought down by a bird<\/a> that shattered the canopy and took out an engine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sheppard officials said Tuesday the bird struck the jet&#8217;s canopy, shattering it and sending fragments into an engine that then failed.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was compounded by the pilots&#8217; attempts to execute a turn that increased drag. The jet lost airspeed, then stalled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The crew safely ejected.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force recently began researching the possibility of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/index?s=opportunity&amp;mode=form&amp;id=7bd899f6bccdfb0658e73f95a04e00c1&amp;tab=core&amp;_cview=1\">updating the canopies<\/a> on the 50+ year old T-38 fleet. Their T-X replacement trainers have reportedly been held up by government budget issues.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force has reported that a T-38 that crashed in July near Sheppard Air Force Base was brought down by a bird that shattered the canopy and took out an engine: Sheppard officials said Tuesday the bird struck the jet&#8217;s canopy, shattering it and sending fragments into an engine that then failed. The incident was compounded by the pilots&#8217; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[619,224,5285,2,4160,757,3864],"class_list":["post-27375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-crash","tag-ejection","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-sheppard-afb","tag-t-38","tag-t-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}