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re: B-17 collides/crashes with another plane at Dallas air show.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:32 pm to GetCocky11
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:32 pm to GetCocky11
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Well that’s a crappy way to die
"We live in fame, or go down in flames, nothing can stop the Army Air Corps"
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Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:32 pm to GetCocky11
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Well that’s a crappy way to die
"We live in fame, or go down in flames, nothing can stop the Army Air Corps"
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:32 pm to BarnabyJones
Even if he saw the other plane, he was probably pulling hard as he could into the turn and thinking he was going to evade up until he realized it was too late. It happened so fast he wouldn't have had much more of a chance than to start the bank and then realize "oh shite" and it was too late.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:33 pm to VaBamaMan
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P-63 King Cobra
It is always a GDCK.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:33 pm to BarnabyJones
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He's clearly over 45° which means all he can see is the ground to his left and sky everywhere else. He might have never even seen the bomber.
It’s possible.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:33 pm to geauxtigers87
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This post was edited on 11/12/22 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:36 pm to Wraytex
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How could the smaller plane not see the bomber? Horrible.
Looks like the 63 was banking and at that angle there’s no way to see anything underneath and there are no fancy electronics to warn of a collision like modern aircraft.
One of the pilots probably errored on what altitude they should be at as that maneuver is pretty common at air shows with the bomber flying a steady with the smaller fighters banking above.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:38 pm to jbgleason
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he was probably pulling hard as he could into the turn and thinking he was going to evade
Certainly didn’t look like a hard turn. Nor any evasive maneuvers.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:42 pm to flyAU
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:43 pm to Ron Popeil
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This post was edited on 11/12/22 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:44 pm to flyAU
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Certainly didn’t look like a hard turn. Nor any evasive maneuvers.
Yeah. I'd think that plane could turn tighter than that if need be. Could certainly gain altitude. Just sawed the B17 in two.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 4:58 pm to flyAU
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Now at 15,000 feet, I would think differently.
Certainly gives our generation a real life perspective of the sacrifices a heck of a lot of young men made over Europe in 1944.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 5:02 pm to armsdealer
What makes you say that?
Posted on 11/12/22 at 5:02 pm to keks tadpole
A pic of the kamikazi;
Posted on 11/12/22 at 5:02 pm to flyAU
There are barely a half-dozen or so B-17s still flying of less than 50 complete aircraft still in existence. I saw one flying in St. Louis about 10 years ago.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 5:05 pm to flyAU
Who was flying that single prop what a dumbass
Posted on 11/12/22 at 5:06 pm to Cracker
His name was Charred Broiled.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 5:06 pm to Cracker
You have no way of knowing if it was his fault or not.
Might have been but you certainly haven’t the slightest clue.
Might have been but you certainly haven’t the slightest clue.
Posted on 11/12/22 at 5:15 pm to METAL
Go piss up a flag pole overtaking a heavy aircraft in uncontrolled space ok Francis
Posted on 11/12/22 at 5:16 pm to RollTide1987
Yeah, I’m going to Hell.
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