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11-18-2022, 05:42 AM
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Re: Dallas Airshow B-17 Flying Fortress Collides With Another Plane
Blind spot. Something similiar has happened to me once while practicing a localizer approach at a non towered airport in a mooney. We were on the localizer (lined up on the runway following a radio signal) and another low wing aircraft turned to line up on the approach, un announced about 300 feet right over us, offset our right side about 50 feet. Just like the plane in the video, he came out of a right bank in which we would have been blanked by his wing and his line of sight on outside being pointed at the sky. If you've never flown an aircraft in traffic or crowded airspace it might be difficult to understand how something like this can happen |
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11-18-2022, 06:40 PM
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Re: Dallas Airshow B-17 Flying Fortress Collides With Another Plane
Tragic not only by loss of life, but the fact that there are not many of these planes left as it is. P.S... That 'DIOS MIO' was a huge comic relief for me. We representing all camera angles and races out here. |
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11-19-2022, 03:14 AM
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Re: Dallas Airshow B-17 Flying Fortress Collides With Another Plane
Oh my Lord, that is so bad. The small plane had to have seen the big one, but from the looks of it it was almost an "on purpose" accident. Still terrible. Great thread! It is crazy how many angles it was filmed from. RIP those who lost their lives.
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11-19-2022, 09:15 PM
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Re: Dallas Airshow B-17 Flying Fortress Collides With Another Plane
juan brown's channel is really good. My dad has flown for American since 1991. He was good friends with Terry Barker here in Fort Worth TX. They were in some kind of men's group and they would go out to eat, go to events, gun ranges and whatever else they could do for fun. My dad said he was super nice and fun to be around, he liked to joke and have a good laugh. He's very stoic but I can tell he's upset by it. I can't imagine basically watching one of your friends get killed. Terry had just retired, had two adult sons and had just become a grandfather. It's very tragic and upsetting but I think most pilots know in the back of their minds that any flight could be their last. |
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11-20-2022, 08:10 AM
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Re: Dallas Airshow B-17 Flying Fortress Collides With Another Plane
Grab the dick of the person sitting next to you.
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#108
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11-20-2022, 09:04 AM
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Re: Dallas Airshow B-17 Flying Fortress Collides With Another Plane
B-17's fuselage separated & landed away from the fireball while the smaller airplane simply obliterated mid air
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11-21-2022, 05:25 PM
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Re: Dallas Airshow B-17 Flying Fortress Collides With Another Plane
Sadly, you are correct. It is a good WW2 reenactment. More US WW2 pilots died in training than combat. I saw a show, I think it was on the History Channel maybe 10 years ago, of the diary and letters of a P-47 Thunderbolt pilot from the US who was flying in Europe in 1944 and 45. Really disturbing, everyone, the Krauts, the American flyers, is getting killed in his diary. And his letters to his girlfriend are sad, he is trying to get her to understand that everyone is fucking dying and he might be next... |
