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P2V Air Tanker Crash Kills Two in Utah
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wrote 1 year 1 week ago
Quoting gdskoog "2. The article states that it appeared that the wingtip hit the ground. If that were the case and the pilot's aircraft got hit by a significant heat thermal from the fire, no amount of "new" would have kept that plane from making contact with the terrain."
That is exactly what I was thinking when I read the story. Controlled or distracted or misjudged flight into terrain is not an aircraft age issue. Noone knows the exact cause just yet but its not like the C-130 where the wings popped off in CA years back.
That being said my deepest respect and sympathies to those who perished and their families and the greatest thanks for the work they do. My father has fought fires out west in Sikorskies and Hueys and its truly a job not meant for just anyone, myself included.
Video: Eurocopter X3 Preps for U.S. Summer Tour
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wrote 1 year 1 week ago
No more dangerous than a King Air.. you just shut down the props when passengers ingress/egress. I'd love to see this thing fly first hand.
Video: Boeing Phantom Eye Makes Maiden Flight
from CessnaPilot4Fun
wrote 1 year 1 week ago
Sweet! A plane that basically has 2 of my Toyota Camry engines in it but has a wingspan of 150', a payload of 450lbs and a ceiling of 65,000' and only spits out water! Nice.
Flying Photographs Evidence of Aurora?
from CessnaPilot4Fun
wrote 1 year 17 weeks ago
I hope there is an Aurora, and I love the idea that those contrails are from it, but I'll need some more convincing. You see about 7 years ago I was sitting in the pool on a weekend afternoon, and living in Daytona Beach, FL there is always planes flying about to look up at. And there was a 737 flying north to south directly overhead with, unmistably, a donuts-on-a-rope contrail. I've been looking up to the sky since I was a kid (my dad flies helos) and have never seen anything like it in person, and I cannot offer an explanation, but there it was clear as the Florida sky that day.
I'd prefer Aurora to a Southwest 737 descending into FLL or MIA, but it is what it is.
Flying Photographs Evidence of Aurora?
from CessnaPilot4Fun
wrote 1 year 17 weeks ago
@ tcwtjs yes I have seen them form, and I'm puzzled by your statement "Obviously a person on the ground, with the naked eye, can not see the airplane in front of a "normal" contrail, but one can see it forming as the airplane flies over." Yes you can see an airplane that is creating contrails with the naked eye from ground level, and with good eyesight and good aircraft recognition you can tell which type of airplane it is.
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