Airplane Pics

[flogger]

This is the Boom Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. It is a 1/3 scale of the proposed 65 passenger plane planned by Boom. I was able to get a VIP tour of the facility at Centennial Airport a few weeks ago. The demonstrator is expected to fly this October out of Mojave.

Checkout Boom XB-1 online, awesome stuff.

[Delfuego]

Haven't seen this one posted here. Happened this week in CO. Balls of steel...

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https://apnews.com/article/denver-34...a30417454f944e

[Irving]

Whoa, that's a crazy read. Thanks for posting.

[Ridge]

The other aircraft involved, since that article doesn't have a photo of it:

[Delfuego]

Wow. Those 2 pilots are living right.

[Ridge]

Wow. Those 2 pilots are living right.

Yep, no injuries or fatalities. The pilot was alone on the Key Lime plane, and he sounded unphased in the ATC audio. 2 people in the red plane, both walked away after they landed by parachute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVyA6jSP_ds

[arbol]

Here's a good aviator forum talking about this crash.

https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/...id-air-us.html

Looks bad on Centennial Airport, and the Air Traffic Controllers, from my perspective.

[arbol]

I'm going to start a new thread on this, because I don't think it belongs in this thread.

[rondog]

I'm betting bricks were shat in that little red plane.....

[flogger]

I was in the Wings over the Rockies museum a few years ago in the ejection seat room. Started talking to a guy who had Parachute landed in a Cirrus with his wife after an inflight emergency (can't remember what happened), He had pictures on his I phone and was eager to share.

After they landed, the wind grabbed the chute and tumbled the plane around for a while. Not sure if they have a cut-off to release the chute but this guy wasn't aware of one. But they did survive.