Aircraft pics

[Belair62]

My place up in Wisconsin is due south of the Hardwood Air to Ground Missle range. ANG train up there every weekend. They come in at near treetop...so friggin cool and each and every time I hear one I still run out with my son to look. We visit the range several time in the summer...one of the wildest sounds I have ever heard was the gun practice of an A-10 Warthog...indescribable.They still use live ammunition on gun and small smoke bombs on their bomb runs...

[Xplantdad]

It's crazy on the B52 crash video...after the plane crashes...you can still hear the engines racing...just for a second.

Too bad

[427TJ]

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It's crazy on the B52 crash video...after the plane crashes...you can still hear the engines racing...just for a second.

Too bad

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The pilot of that B-52, the loose cannon who could not be controlled, was so dangerous that it was getting so that nobody in his squadron would fly with him. For the airshow demo practice the squadron commander flew right seat for this guy and two more senior officers rode in two other positions on the airplane. The crash occurred because the pilot pulled the airplane up into a fighter-style pitch-up after a low pass. He leveled the airplane on downwind, opposite the direction of landing, but he had run the airplane out of airspeed during this maneuver and the B-52 immediately stalled and began to enter a left spin when it impacted. If you look closely you can see the (squadron commander) copilot's ejection system beginning it's sequence as his cockpit election hatch leaves the airplane over the copilot's seat. Sadly, his seat fired as the airplane hit the ground and he did not clear the fireball. The squadron commander, who had tried to get this guy grounded, had his own family there to watch the demonstration practice and they saw the whole thing.