03-18-2007, 14:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Horrido
There's a huge website (that I can't find) on the building of both the B-52 and the C-17.
Here's video of the RC B-52 crash:
UN-OFFICAL R/C Turbine B-52 Information Page
Here's the real thing:
YouTube - Military airplane, B-52, crashes
The jerk Lt. Col. Holland, came pretty darned close to killing a sizeable portion of my family with that stunt. They also have film of him cresting a mountain ridge with tens of feet of clearance dropping training flares on protestors wielding a sign, not the smartest thing to do in dry, pine forest habitat. I actually saw him at an airshow performance doing low-altitude knife-edge turns, zoom climbs, and near-hammerhead stalls in a B-52. We had the Thunderbirds groundcrew in front of us at the time, and when they saw the stunts, their jaws dropped, dead silent, then were suddenly chattering angrily with each other. Holland had actually popped rivets out of the airframe. You do NOT do those kinds of stunts with a heavy bomber. The crash was his last scheduled flight before retirement. Too bad he had to take seven other lives along with him.
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I heard before the flight there were people who refused to fly with him,if hes the guy from Spokane?
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