Crash at NY Air Show

Lovely. Our show is next weekend. So how about this whole crashing trend just stops now. I don't want a plane going landing in our warehouse - I can't afford to not be working!

(and since we overlook the airport - I'm not exaggerating about the warehouse! The Thunderbirds will probably deafen us and shake the whole building. YAY!)

Thunderbirds were at our show Memorial Day Weekend...they parked at my local airport - and flew over my house MANY times! SOOOOO LOUD but SOOOO COOL

Saw them back in June. They were awesome as always!

There was a lady, a wing acrobat who was killed when her pilot crashed during an air show a couple years ago. The high definition photos taken of the plane crashing was bone chilling. Probably because I had met her at an air show a few months before
Her name was Jane. You should see those photos ... Very sad..

You must be an Obama Economic Advisor, right?

I prefer the Blue Angels - but the Thunderbirds are ok. The BA's used to fly so close to my old house, I could see the pilots. And man did they rattle the timbers!

The old Stewart Liner compound?

Tail snapped off.

God speed Ben.

Another one? I'm spotting a trend here.

Yeah...kinda like no one actually gives a shit bout cars going round and round....they paid the entry fee to see the cars crash.

I like the Blue Angels better than the Thunderbirds, as well.

The Marines fly lower, faster, and closer to the crowd, while the AF Thunderbirds show is very regimented, crowd kept back 1/2 a mile, etc.

Now, if you want to see a show that will take your breath away, try the Snowbirds.

Ah god damnit

Typical carbon fiber failure. Carbon fiber is notorious for sudden catastrophic failure.

Steel and aluminum bend and twist and stretch often long before they fail. But carbon fiber goes all at once.

In 2015 America, your safer at the air show then the movie theater.

Air shows are cool, used to live close to a AFB and watch the ThunderBirds and blue angels sitting on the roof of my house.

they would be so low you could literally see the pilot looking at you, it was neat .. are house was about the distance at which they would slow and turn back towards the main show at the AFB. They would do slow turns and group into formations literally over our back yard.

the week that the airshow was in town was really a amazing time,

should have alot more of them, they dont do airshows now after the Clintons closed our AFB

In the video he dove at the ground (probably the runway) I bet he bottomed out of that dive by contacting the runway just hard enough to crack or break the composite fuselage holding the tail.

Mustang pilot? Wouldn't he be like 100?

I went to many airshows in the late 60's early 70's. The more experienced pilots liked to view from some distance away. I asked them why (I was very young), and they said the closer the plane is to the ground the more deadly the error.

Still, loved air shows back in the day.

Sum Ting Wong

Well in the McLaren factory they test the exact torsional strength of carbon fibre, twisting it until it snaps. Turns out is much stronger than steel in that test. That is fresh modern carbon fibre of course.

We tu lo.

They couldn't wait until tomorrow?

My son and I are going then.

Wigner effect - metal fatigue from radiation in air column. Search it.

He was a WW2 pilot according to the links, yes he was an older gentlemen

No, I'm the one who tells you the truth when you don't know which way is down or up

Is this the airport in NY where the planes involved in 911 had their transponders turned off?

Wait a second.....somebody takes a photo of a plane crashing and nobody here is claiming it's part of a vast government plot to kill the pilot who was 3rd cousin to the Doctor that found a cure to cancer but was secretly moved to a base under a mountain where he is to stay with the "victims" of 9/11? Well, let me be the first to say....where is the blood on the ground?.... How do we know the plane really crashed? I have not seen any debris......has anybody interviewed the witnesses to check for crisis actors?....you people are slipping, threads like this are usually full of crap like that.

Apparently no ejection capability?

If anyone had doubts that tails on airplanes were key to flight... what happened to that plane a few seconds after that photo was taken should put those doubts to rest.

Read the article... there was a real American there... hate to lose guys like that.

Modern design-built aerobatic aircraft could "Fly" on horsepower alone, but without the vertical stabilizer, the ailerons alone can't displace enough force to keep the aircraft from spinning with the centrifugal force the engine and propeller creates.

Basic Flight 101

Last Edited by Flying Elvii on 08/28/2015 09:14 PM

An airforce guy I knew seen 2 people hit the ground that chutes didn't open. He said it was like moving a big bag of jello.