Lt. Col. Eric Schultz passes
Stars & Stripes reports that Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schultz was killed when his aircraft succumbed to gravity over the Nevada Test and Training Range, approximately 100 miles northwest of Nellis Air Force Base.
The Air Force isn’t telling which brand of aircraft he was flying when the incident happened, but in the picture above, he’s sitting in an F-35 six years ago.
The aircraft was assigned to Air Force Materiel Command, which leads development of new combat technologies for the service.
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“Information about the type of aircraft involved is classified and not releasable,” Maj. Christina Sukach, chief of public affairs for the 99 Air Base Wing at Nellis, said in an email.
Two A-10 pilots safely ejected from their crafts earlier this week when they crashed in the same airspace above the test range.
Category: Air Force
Men like that are what makes the poseurs so heinous. RIP LtCol Schultz.
Exactly.
Piss me off to no end…
They all belong in a bag of cocksuckers.
A big bag.
Godspeed to you Lt Col Schultz and God bless your family.
RIP LtCol Schultz
Men like this do their craft willingly and make it look easy to the casual observer, however there is nothing easy about strattling the edge of death every time they climb into a cockpit.
RIP Sir!
WAR STORY ALERT: In about 64′ as an E-4 I had the privilege of meeting Colonel Chuck Yeager when he flew a F-104 into Portland International Airport. I was temporarily assigned to base ops and gave him a ride into Portland to pick up some items. He gave us a show when taking off and I immediately got a call from an indignant civilian side airport tower operator demanding the pilots name. At the time I didn’t have a clue who he was other than a colonel who was a nice guy. When I told the tower his name it was like, “sorry I bothered you”.
RIP Lt. Col. Schultz.
Rest in peace Lt. Col. Schultz. God be with your family.
Back in the day, if a F-117 went down, the area was declared a National Defense Area and sealed off. The official Air Force story was that an A-7 crashed. Later of course, the Air Force released the news that the stealth “fighter” existed, was moving to Holloman, and needed to fly sorties in the daytime. If you knew anything about the 117 you knew it was neither a fighter nor did it ever need to fly in the daytime, except maybe to airshows. I’m quite sure they were making room for the next black project. Whether this is an aircraft from that project or even a follow on, is up for speculation.
Was kinda cool living near Holloman… you never knew when you heard a jet if it would be the F117, or maybe a Grrman Tornado or (blast from the past ) F-4 .
Probably neither seeing that it crashed at 1800. Black Projects tend to not fly in the daytime, just as you alluded to in your post. There have been sighting in the past year of modern day Russian aircraft in the range, so that would be my bet. If you don’t know about the 4477th TES Red Eagles, Google it and read the book. I’d have to think there is a new 4477th in town and they are doing similar work with more modern aircraft.
As for your theory, I’m pretty sure (almost certain) there was already another TS/SCI project going on there when they moved out. At this point, there may very well be a second or third past that one.
Rest In Peace, Sir.
RIP
So very sad. RIP LT. Schultz.