test flight photographer is filming an f-18 hornet from a chase plane. it was basically filled with concrete. the mission was to find out how the mark 82 would separate from the airplane in an emergency mode. dozens of other cameras are also recording the critical test of the navy s newest fighter jet. they are all stuck all over the airplane and then i m there as the insurance policy. if something goes wrong and they lose the airplane, they have my film that can come back and reassemble what happened. little does he know, it s his plane that will run into trouble. when the planes ream 5,000 feet, the hornet releases the bomb while flying at more than 500 miles per hour. we had just gotten into position and as the weapon came down it came right on its side and took our right wing off. a slow motion camera on the f-18 records the bomb shearing
off part of the chase plane s wing, the plane hepp is in. when it hit us, it was nothing. i felt a little bump. not even like when you run into a telephone pole backing up out of a parking place. nothing drastic. but then we did two 360-degree rolls in less than a second and a half. so that got my attention. hep and the pilot are the only two people in the plane. as they spin wildly around and around, their plane becomes engulfed in flames. hep doesn t know the plane is on fire and critically damaged. i thought, oh, we lost control because he tried to evade the weapon. i didn t realize it had taken off our wing. i just thought we recover the airplane, thought we just lost control of it a little bit. i thought, okay, we re good. we re going to fly it and land. as they continue their fiery spiral towards earth, his vision gets blurry. i could not see anything.
glass flying everywhere. debris everywhere. [ scream ] all i say is this big fireball. you can feel the heat from the fuel burning off. at that point, just get out. not everyone can. the pilot of the burning plane is caught inside. the airplane itself is starting to spiral down to the ground. the broken wing is in flames, threatening the skydivers. i think, you know, in the next second probably not going to be alive. the wing plummets with the skydivers who are also flying through the air. the wing is above us. we re falling faster than that wing is through the air. and it s on fire. and there are other small pieces flying around us that are on fire. and so everybody s instinct then is just to get away as quick as possible. including blake weedon, the pilot of the chase plane. i saw the 182 with only one wing at that point. i guess my first thought is what does my airplane look like.
fireball. you can feel the heat from the fuel burning off. at that point, just get out. not everyone can. the pilot of the burning plane is caught inside. the airplane itself is starting to spiral down to the ground. the broken wing is in flames, threatening the skydivers. i think, you know, in the next second probably not going to be alive. the wing plummets with the skydivers who are also flying through the air. the wing is above us. we re falling faster than that wing is through the air. and it s on fire. and there are other small pieces flying around us that are on fire. and so everybody s instinct then is just to get away as quick as possible. including blake weedon, the pilot of the chase plane. i saw the 182 with only one wing at that point. i guess my first thought is what does my airplane look like. it has a damaged propeller and wing.
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