F4 PHANTOM HITS WALL AT 500 MPH

What happens when an airplane hits a concrete wall at maximum speed.

The passenger jets that hit the WTC towers and Pentagon were doing 600 mph. You may have seen the Truther websites that ask; "If it's true that a Boeing airliner hit the Pentagon, what happened to all the parts of it? Why did we not find more pieces of it? Where did all that mass GO?"

Answer to the question; what happened to "all the mass of that airplane," watch this Air Force engineering test of a concrete barrier designed to surround a nuclear reactor dome, to see if it would survive an aerial attack. With the high speed cameras rolling, they attached an F-4 Phantom to a sled and then pumped up the speed to 500 MPH, and . . .


WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN 'UNSTOPPABLE FORCE' MEETS AN 'IMMOVABLE OBJECT'?

Watch in slow motion as the F-4 turns to vapor.








STORMBRINGER presents this information as a lead up to this year's 9-11 commemorative - Sean Linnane


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PHANTOMS ON LINE

Taken in the late 70's by my buddy Mark the Shark, when he lived on Clark AFB . . . these are F4's on the line.

PARDO's PUSH

Pardo's Push was an aviation maneuver carried out by Captain Bob Pardo in order move his wingman's badly damaged F-4 Phantom II to friendly air space during the Vietnam War.

Captain Bob Pardo (with back-seater 1st Lt. Steve Wayne) and wingman Captain Earl Aman (with back-seater Lt. Robert Houghton) were assigned to the 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. In March 1967, they were trying to attack a steel mill in North Vietnam just north of Hanoi.





THE PUSH

On March 10, 1967, the sky was clear for a bombing run. Both F-4 Phantoms were hit by anti-aircraft guns. Aman's plane took the worst damage; his fuel tank had been hit, and he quickly lost most of his fuel. He did not have enough fuel to make it to a tanker aircraft over Laos.

To avoid having Aman and Houghton bail out over hostile territory, Pardo decided to try pushing the airplane. Pardo first tried to use Aman's drag chute compartment to push the plane. However, turblence was too great and this failed.

Next, Pardo tried to use Aman's tailhook to push the plane. Pardo moved behind Aman until the tailhook was against Pardo's windshield. Pardo told Aman to shut down his engines; Aman was nearly out of fuel and the engine jets interfered with Pardo's plan. The push worked, reducing the rate of descent considerably, but the tailhook slipped off the windshield every 15 to 30 seconds, and Pardo would reposition his plane. Pardo also struggled with a fire in one of his own engines and eventually had to shut it down. For the last 10 minutes of flight, Pardo used the one remaining engine to slow the descent of both planes.

With Pardo's plane running out of fuel after pushing Aman's plane almost 88 miles, the planes reached Laos airspace at an altitude of 6000 feet. This left them about two minutes of flying time. The two pilots and their partners ejected, evaded capture, and were picked up by rescue helicopters.

Although Pardo was initially criticized for not saving his own aircraft, he and Wayne eventually received the Silver Star for the maneuver.