CF-18 makes emergency landing after losing part of rudder

Oooops.......didn't see this before I posted the local source.

At least it was only a rudder this time.

I may as well add the actual picture..........

We also had one of the Snow Bird jets drop in someone's back yard a few years ago. There was quite a little BBQ after that as well.

BBQ?~~What can you eat after the aircraft was burned!!!!
One of the planes of China Airlines also had an accident while landing at an airport in Japan
What will cause if the pilot didn't make an emergency landing?

Pilot.........I hear they taste like chicken.....just a little more gamier.

well these birds are over 25 years old, some of them marching dam close to 30.

Wouldn't mind seeing a few hundred Typhoons or something like that in a decade to replace this aging fleet.

Unrelated, but tonight on TVO, a piece called Michael Palin's new Europe featured him taking a trip on a DC3/C47 reputed to be a veteran of the Berlin Airlift. German registration, with WW2 USSAF markings and in big letters "Raisin Bomber"(in German). Apparently the Berliners affectionately referred to the air-freight haulers as "raisin bombers" or "candy bombers" due to the practice of their pilots tossing candy or packs of raisins on Berlin for the kids.

A lot of those "goonie birds" are still flying. I can be numbered among their pilots. Great flyers---if you are patient---when you take off you can time them with a calender.......

I know it's not but not a seaking but it still apllies.

Perhaps it is because we have arrived at one of the plateaus, which have characterized military aircraft since WW2.
The reality is that the current birds are last generation and these aircraft represent the last generation which emerged 30 years back.
WW2 and the immediate post war period saw rapid development and signifigant numbers of operation aircraft become obsolete, not just obsolescent, after only months of service at times.
Indeed the USAF air defence fighter the Convair Delta Dart served many years to be finally replaced by the F15. It fit the requirement, range, speed altitude, armament. The onset of a new threat other than manned bombers such as low level intruders/cruise missiles ended it's usefulness. It could not be updated with pulse-dopler radar and Missiles......it's instrument bays were simply not big enough.
The result is more highly stressed airframes are around long enough to develope fatigue issues....the USAF has had this with their F15s.
Sabre 5's were not used long enough to develope these problems.

We could upgrade to something that requires less maintance and has a longer life span.

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Good luck with that. The generation of aircraft the CF18's represent are unprecedented in that regard. My generation had the F4 Phantom as state of the art. It required generally 14 man hours of attention for every hour airbourne..... The F14-18 with self diagnostics etc vastly reduced that....just for starters.

I agree with you sasquatch2. The f-18 though old, are still rugged and fairly reliable. Just like a good classic car. Solid, showing some age, but still solid.

More likely it'll be a bunch of diecast F-22's just like this one: