What about the “tell us what sort of NSFW stuff you’re linking to before we click on it” rule?
Who wants to click on a blind YouTube link?
As a wise man once said, “actually, it’s more of a guideline than a rule.”
It’s a comedy routine from The Frantics, who are probably best knows for Boot to the Head. I’d rather not give away any more than that.
I’m not of the opinion that posts essentially consisting only of a blind link are desirable for this Board.
Well when one fighter jet loves another fighter jet very much…
B-17G Sentimental Journey lives a few miles from my home at the CAF museum. She tours the country in the summer, but winters over at the museum. It is unmistakable when she flies overhead.
Even more fortunate that they managed to not get hit by their tumbling planes or by each other or get tangled up.
Yeah. For all 4 low altitude ejections to result in no material injuries (assuming that early reporting holds up) is way out there on the improbable end of the curve.
I’ll be interested to read how they got into that crash. Speed and distances are hard to judge in that video, but it certainly looks like they were not going very fast relative to each other and neither does it look like either was doing a tight turn or steep pull up / dive.
It looks like they just kind of floated into each other.
Here’s an article about the LGA RJ-firetruck collision almost 2 months ago. It’s free to non-subscribers for a couple weeks from now.
The Port Authority now thinks it’d be a dandy idea to hurry up and install transponders on its many, many ground vehicles. There’s also a real nice timeline of who did what when in that article. Stuff happens fast.
Bottom line though is the lead truck crossed a set of red lights they should not have. And evidently forgot to look both ways too. Haste makes failures.
If the link doesn’t work for anyone let me know; I scraped the tracking mumbo jumbo off the url as I always do and that may have broken it for non-subscribers.
Worked for me. Thanks.
Wife and I were visiting Colorado Springs and learned there was a WW2 air museum by the airport. Was pleasantly surprised by the quantity and quality of the planes and exhibits.
A docent took us on an awesome tour of their restoration hangar. They were finishing restoration of a Brewster-made Corsair rescued from a Florida swamp. It’s the only flyable Corsair made by Brewster.
Also under construction was a brand-new P-40E.
One of the more unusual examples of “new old stock”, undoubtedly.
Iconic photo of a previous ejection/crash at Mountain Home AFB involving the Thunderbirds. Good story on the ejection process and timing. A whole lot of moving parts, explosives, rocket motors working in sequence to get the pilot out safely.
I’ll add that part of my job involved CADs/PADs (cartridge and propellant actuated devices). They have shelflife and installed life limits and are regularly serviced. The ground crew updates the aircraft logs to track the replacement cycle and the lot and serial numbers of installed components.
Considering the nature of the contact between the incident aircraft (belly to dorsal), it’s a bona-fide miracle the cockpit of the lower aircraft wasn’t blocked by the upper. The slight offset in yaw saved a couple of lives, both by not immediately ceushing the canopy and by allowing clearance to ehect.
Tell me about it. Worst FOD walkdown in the world was going down the hanger deck after an AM triggered the seat while doing maintenance and leaning over it. We all got a damn stern talking to about tag-out procedures after that one (I worked arresting gear and you better bet we tagged that damn thing out before we crawled in - and I would visually inspect to ensure the CDP was disconnected and coiled. .
There’s one hell of a lot of energy coiled to strike in a parked shut down military airplane. Or a catapult. Or arresting gear. Or …
Beyond the (very) immediate human cost, I have to imagine a rocket-powered seat ricocheting around a hangar deck created some collateral damage to both ship & planes.
I might be misunderstanding your post. When I say tagged out, I mean the engine had all pressure removed, the main cable was slacked, and the CDP (cross-deck pendant - the part the planes catch which is separate from the main cable that wraps around the engine below) was disconnected from one end and coiled off to the side so that it couldn’t be caught by a tractor and accidentally pulled out.
Ship was in decent shape. I think the fire suppression system needed some work. Oddly no other planes were damaged, but that walkdown will haunt me until the day I die.
I meant only that all these systems can kill a worker easily if something is overlooked and then luck runs short. Procedures rigorously followed minimize that. Attention to detail is Job One.
I think darn near everyone in a military non-admin role got issued at least one of those “til I die” memories.
Hugs, bro.