Airshow accident in Poland

[Slash27]

Originally posted by Thrawn
Crashing airplanes?

classy

[Gh0stFT]

what airplanes are they flying? watching some of the videos
not much left of plane #1 after the impact, it looks like an Ultralight?

this kind of manoever happend in Rammstein too, just with more
planes but in the end it was similar planes coming in from 3 different
positions heading to arrive at one point, a.) in different altitudes or
b.) at a different time (seconds and less)

they knew the danger otherwise they would not fly this kind
of manoevers, but 24 years old... thats to young to die...

R.I.P.

[Slash27]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlin_Z-50

[Maverick]

Ghost, airplanes with a combined impact speed in excess of 300 to 400 MPH, what do you expect? They may be rated for G's but not impact, no aircraft is.

You want a good exercise in it? Do a force equation on it. See what the huge ft lb numbers are.

[MiloMorai]

Originally posted by Gh0stFT
what airplanes are they flying?

The Zlin Z-50 from Czech Rep.

[eskimo2]

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Originally posted by Thrawn
Crashing airplanes?

Originally posted by Slash27
classy

Actually, that is kind of funny.

[Hortlund]

Originally posted by eskimo2
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Originally posted by Thrawn
Crashing airplanes?

 

Actually, that is kind of funny.

Actually, that is not only kind of funny, it is ****ing hillarious.

[CyranoAH]

They are actually flying Zlin Akrobats (Z-526) or Trener Masters (Z-326, two-seater version of the Akrobat), the wings are significantly different from the Z-50 (flown the three types).


Z-526


Z-50L

Formation leader died in what was to be his last performance, and the squadron had already lost two pilots in another airshow two years before.

Hard to know what happened... the Akrobat has superb forward-vision, as it flies with a marked nose-down attitude when in level flight... miscalculation is my bet.

Daniel

[ramzey]

Cyrano, don't spread gossips please.
In 2003, 2 members of team went for multi engine flight training,  one of them was instructor for multi , second was taking lesson.
They crash in Morava couple miles from airfield.
It was not airshow, just training flight

[CyranoAH]

My apologies, I read it on a news site.

Daniel

[Yeager]

very tragic.  you can actually see the pilot being propelled free from the debri of the most distant plane, aft of the engine mass.

[4deck]

Jeez. Very tragic. That shot is unbelievable. I had to look at it several times but it does look like a pilot being ejected on the left plane. Whats wierd is that picture of a skull looking back at you on the right plane. In the center of the wreckage. I dont know, I just watched the ghost thread. Still very tragic.

[Torque]

dang...

[Denholm]

Ram tard.

[Maverick]

Originally posted by Denholm
Ram tard.

Just plain tard.  ^

Real classy to make fun of something like that.