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Just in Time for Halloween, an F-101 Disguised as an F-117

posted by janrinok on Thursday October 10, @07:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-couldn't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

Snotnose writes:

Your super secret airplane just crashed and everyone knows where. Now what?

'At the crash site investigators collected evidence and evaluated the remains of the aircraft for clues to the cause of the tragedy. Then came the task of cleaning the site and leaving no pieces of the highly classified aircraft for scavengers, the media, or others to find. A clean-up team moved out a thousand feet from the last of the recognizable debris and then dug and sifted all the dirt in the area.

'On Jul. 23, controlled explosive charges were detonated on the hillside to free pieces of the aircraft buried as the result of the crash.'

Then, according to Knowledge Stew, the Air Force brought in a crashed F-101A Voodoo, an aircraft that had been out of service with the Air Force since 1972 and with the Air National Guard since 1982. The crashed Voodoo had been in storage at the secretive Area 51 in Nevada for more than 20 years, and it was broken up and put in place of the F-117 debris. Almost a month later, the Air Force said the area was no longer restricted.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Friday October 11, @11:38AM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Friday October 11, @11:38AM (#1376544)

    The crashed Voodoo had been in storage at the secretive Area 51 in Nevada for more than 20 years,

    That's kind of an interesting story in itself.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Frosty Piss on Friday October 11, @04:21PM

    by Frosty Piss (4971) on Friday October 11, @04:21PM (#1376579)

    Having been an AF firefighter / rescue guy in the 80's and 90's, I'd been to Groom Lake to train on f117 egress and recovery, and always got a kick out of what people thought it might look like, especially later when I was stationed at Beale AFB and worked with the SR71 (lots of gauges, very little "glass") and U2. As to the Voodoo kept in storage for 20+ years, it's normal to keep such things for training.