rocknrobn26 Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 oops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Ouch. Looked to windy to be flying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Oh man, that's a shame. That was the most impressive model I've ever seen - I hope they resurrect it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Like Soup Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 All good things come to end. Spendy hobby - I wonder if he had insurance? 1253987[/snapback] The accident looks very much like the real one in Spokane...Oops. Go to the second B52 crash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deacon Bill Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 That was sweet...especially the landing. Camera dude's gotta' go though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outshined Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 The accident looks very much like the real one in Spokane...Oops. Go to the second B52 crash. 1254188[/snapback] This crash... That is pretty sad. It was preventable...A total breakdown of a military unit. You can read the case study here. The pilot broke so many rules, so many times he was never reprimanded or grounded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I repaired the avionics on both Buffs and F-4's when I was in the USAF. Both great planes that could take battle damage. The B-52's were very vulnerable to SAM's. Very hard plane to get out of, once it's hit. We lost a lot of good men in B-52's. They stopped flying them until we got the F-4EC.... they would fly in ahead of the Buffs and take out the SAM sites, but the N Vietnamese got smart fast.... they wouldn't light up until the Buffs came in. If they don't illuminate (turn the targeting radar on) they were hard to find, and harder to hit. It got to the point where the F-4EC's had to fly WITH the B-52's. Then, if they lit up, the F-4 could take them out, but the B-52 would often get hit in the exchange. The VC knew that they were comitting suicide when they lit up a B-52, but they did it anyway. It was that kind of war. My favorite plane was an unlikely one.... the KC-135. A modified Boeing 707, it is in my opinion the best jet aircraft ever built. The C-130 comes in a close second, although it's a prop job. The 135 was an airborne refueler, and was an absolute workhorse for this country. Back in the day, the only way we could hit Russia with nukes far into the interior was with aircraft that got fed by 135's along the way. The cold war would have gotten alot hotter without the capability those planes provided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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