A US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor has sustained more than $1 million in damage after colliding with another aircraft parked on a taxiway.
A spokesman at Tyndall AFB, Florida, where the incident last week occurred, confirmed the F-22A struck a Canada’s Air Force Boeing CF-18.
Despite a $1 million repair bill, the collision was a relatively minor, low-speed event, the spokesman says. Details of the damage are being withheld pending the results of a safety investigation.
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A USAF spokesman said “They were never on the ground at the same time and the besides the F-22 didn’t have its deflector shields up””, and the pilot of the f-18 is quoted as saying ‘I just didn’t see him coming’
Carlo Kopp on Airpower Australia’s forum has written a piece based on this latest incident on the effectiveness on the F-22 ramming MIG’s over The F-35’s gentle nudging of Cessna’s.
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April 19, 2009 at 8:52 am