Tyndall Air Force Base leveled by hurricane

[LukeFF]

https://www.stripes.com/news/before-and-after-aerial-photos-show-storm-ravaged-tyndall-air-force-base-1.551495

[Legioneod]

47 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

https://www.stripes.com/news/before-and-after-aerial-photos-show-storm-ravaged-tyndall-air-force-base-1.551495

Sad stuff. Incredible that not many people died in this storm, was nearly a Cat 5.

[Bremspropeller]

Reminds me of Andrew at Homestead in the early 90s.

 

I'm glad that the loss of life seems to have been low.

That Hurricane came out of nowhere. I do follow NOAA on facebook and instagram and they're putng out those onderful prediction charts.

 

I remember Irma last year, when I was still a dispatcher at a large, now tnked, german airline and we had to plan for all kinds of contingencies going into Cuba, the Carribean, Miami and Ft. Myers. That one seemed to go on forever, but Michael just showed up in the backyard and kicked down the kitchen-door.

[Legioneod]

5 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Reminds me of Andrew at Homestead in the early 90s.

 

I'm glad that the loss of life seems to have been low.

That Hurricane came out of nowhere. I do follow NOAA on facebook and instagram and they're putng out those onderful prediction charts.

 

I remember Irma last year, when I was still a dispatcher at a large, now tnked, german airline and we had to plan for all kinds of contingencies going into Cuba, the Carribean, Miami and Ft. Myers. That one seemed to go on forever, but Michael just showed up in the backyard and kicked down the kitchen-door.

Very unexpected Hurricane, there was nearly no time to prepare. Alot of the aftermath photos remind me of the destruction I saw during Katrina, Katrina nearly wiped every coastal area off the map. I remember going down to the beach with my family about an hour or so after the storm had calmed a bit, biloxi bridge and most of the coast was completely destroyed.

[Gambit21]

Funny how narrow/focused the path of destruction was...and how quickly it came and went.

[Jaws2002]

Looks like this hurricane mat have destroyed dozens of F22s. 

There are photos of F22s inside collapsed hangars. 

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24178/tyndall-air-force-base-in-ruins-after-michael-fighters-seen-inside-roofless-hangars

 

 

Out of 55 f22s stationed on the base, only 33 have been evacuated before the storm hit and 22 of them were left on the base!

 This is going to be one expensive storm for the tax payers.

 

[ZachariasX]

4 hours ago, Jaws2002 said:

This is going to be one expensive storm for the tax payers.

This is just an illustration of how smart it is to discontinue production of your best front line fighter. You can calculate now how much wind you need to get down from 187 aircraft to 0.

 

But rejoice, LM offered a new version of a hybrid F-22/35! Since that one will undoubtably a flying brick as well (they want to put bombs on it) there should be no reason why you shouldn‘t export it. At an expected 300 million USD or so price tag, it will damage the buyers economy more by the sheer procurrement than any bomb such a plane could carry. Win-win basically.

 

But also in Belgium they don‘t need enemy contact to scrap some fighter planes.

 

 

 

 

[Jaws2002]

 How are they going to make the F-22/F-35 hybrid?

I guess they could leave a bunch of F-22s and a bunch of F-35s in the same hangar on Tyndall next time a Hurricane passes through and see what comes out.

[-332FG-Gordon200]

 

Edited October 16, 2018 by Gordon200

[GP*]

Heartbreaking to see, particularly the devisation in Mexico Beach. It’s a small coastal town right down the road. I lived there during the B Course and my realtor became a great friend who also took pro-quality photos of all of us on our first flights. 

 

Im fairly certain our old apartment down there is completely gone...