Airplane Pics

[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.

[O2HeN2]

Ok, not airplanes but they do fly, so to avoid another thread...

Drove to Alamosa on Saturday to watch some of the National Association of Rockery's annual National Sport Launch (this year, AKA "Spudnik" as an homage to the potato farming in the area). I understand they had clearance up to 30,000 feet.

Everything from small Estes kits to, let's call 'em BFRs.

Growing up I did Estes rockets, but I didn't do kits. I always liked designing and building my own. My most complex rocket was a 2 stage with a 3 engine booster which recovered under parachute (as well as the upper stage, of course).

Engines are lettered depending on total impulse. Common small model rocket engines are A, B and C. Estes came out with a D engine shortly before I got out of rocketry. I believe I heard that there were some O engines on site for this launch event.

To give you an idea of the size of some of the rockets:



This was a prototype engine launch from one of the far pads:



This was a mid-sized (probably 3-4 feet tall) rocket launch from one of the near pads:



Looked like everyone was having a good time. I take it back, not everyone...



Lots of nerdy kids running around. Took me back...

O2

[flogger]

In the 70’s, rocket geeks were always kind of weird cool! Did a few builds and street launches but never got into it this far!

It looks like a great time!

[flogger]