Well...what a night.. One of the F-15 make a vertical plunge to the floor....The forward fuselage is separated from the main, vertical stabliser is flung out....lucky the rest of the airframe is still intact. One of my beagle (F-15E) have it's ECM pod ripped off.
Damage assessment :
Beagle : Restick the ECM pod, sand it smooth and spray back the color.
F-15C : Will stick it back...see if there is any chipped paints, filled in the gaps and light overspray.

Thinking of the F-15C: It has a rather long history with me. It started it's life as a Hasegawa SP22 F-15E Dual Role Fighter, built with minimal skills and awful seams. Down the line, the forward side fuselage was deformed after some experiment.Stripped out the paint, plug in the front fuselage of the Fujimi's F-15A and a IAF F-15A with CFT. After looking at it ... it's a sore eye, so stripped the paint and rebuilt as a USAF F-15C, last mod.I was happy. But windscreen is in a awkard position, so reposition it. And now after this plunge, should I write it off?After all I got 4 more F-15s unbuilt.Better take the protrait of the 8 F-15s I have now before they also suffer the same fate. Shall reposition them.

Life of Hasegawa SP22 F-15E Dual Role Fighter:
F-15E Seymour Johnson AFB AF 87-182
Incidents : Front fuselage stricken off during a "night raid" , deformed during some freak accident.
F-15A Israeli Air Force S/N 678
Incidents : None
F-15C Eglin AFB AF 79-065
Incidents : Front fuselage stricken off twice during fall, windscreen repositioned.
What next?? Ideas : F-15D .....

Every plane has a story.......