Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: bigsky on August 19, 2013, 04:04:29 PM
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http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/air-force-bomber-crashes-near-broadus-during-training/article_ae05c864-4364-5b36-adb4-5dce07ffdd23.html (http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/air-force-bomber-crashes-near-broadus-during-training/article_ae05c864-4364-5b36-adb4-5dce07ffdd23.html)
I know the bombers fly very low in that area, I wonder what happened.
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Good, crew got out.
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, I wonder what happened.
he to lo?
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he to lo?
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6nqob2nCq1rzz3r3o1_500.gif)
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Glad to hear the crew got out :salute
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I have relatives who live in Ekalaka (my mother is from there as well) and they rountinely see the B1s doin low level training.
This is not the first crash in this area, one went down near Alzada which is a little further east, back in the 90s if i remember correctly.
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Good, crew got out.
Ditto. :salute
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news said all the crew ejected but were in the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. 1994 another b-1b crashed and killed all 4 of the crew.
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They fly NOE at high speed. I'm sure the window for a successful ejection is very small.
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I was on a damage control hunt about 10 years ago in that area where it crashed. It is gods country there, nothing but but miles and miles sagebrush. It is in the far southeast corner of the state. I was working years ago east of Terry and you can see the bombers almost every day. I think that they fly north at low level in the eastern part of the state. All the times that I seen them they are @ 500 feet.
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One report of fire prior to crash. Did it bounce or was there another issue? The rest of the article is "erased" for our security. :noid
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One report of fire prior to crash. Did it bounce or was there another issue? The rest of the article is "erased" for our security. :noid
It's your browser and the way the newspaper formats their site. Open the same site with SuperBird, or Safari and it will read fine. The latest versions of IE, Firefox, and Chrome see the text as greyed out.
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I'm sure the window for a successful ejection is very small.
Why do you say that?
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It is good to hear the crew made it out safely.
I made mention of this before in these forums, but my friends and I use to shoot prairie dogs SW of Newcatle, WY, in what is known as Thunder Basin National Grassland. Sometime in the mid-1990's, we were resting in the shade of a butte and letting the rifles cool when out of nowhere a B1 roars over us at high speeds. It was low enough for us to read the letters on the underside. The bomb bay doors were open, too. We watched this bomber fly down through the valley and make some long gentle turns and eventually fly out and over the hills in the distance. It was a very cool feeling watching this elegant beast fly around and know that it was on our side, thankfully.
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Why do you say that?
Min alt and time to do it.
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Min alt and time to do it.
What type ejection seats is the B-1 equiped with? What are the seat performance envelope(s)? What caused the crew to eject?
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What caused the crew to eject?
There was an explosion, fire and then it lost a wing according to the news story. Engine disintegrated?
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It's your browser and the way the newspaper formats their site. Open the same site with SuperBird, or Safari and it will read fine. The latest versions of IE, Firefox, and Chrome see the text as greyed out.
I discovered a little problem with IE, and Mozilla, that doesn't seem to be inherited by the other browsers (Chrome, Safari, PaleMoon, SuperBird). If you have a non-TrueType version of Helvetica, or Times fonts installed (and possibly others) then web pages designed to call Helvetica or Times through their CSS code will fail. This problem used to be a Type 1 font issue, but it has now become an OpenType and Raster issue as well.
If you have not installed any fonts to Windows then you should not have this problem.
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Heard they ingested a prairie dog and the turbine section let go............
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Photo of crash site:
(http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5213c87c6bb3f7e231000008-1200-600/ap227304733840-3.jpg)
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I am very glad they got out. That looks nasty, but more airplane shaped than I would expect. The four points, nose, tail and each wingtip are pretty clear.