<div><SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN>Thanks Marty, that's the one. Remembered it as test pilot...regardless, crew and all perished. Point being that pencils need to fly extremely fast to generate enough lift. Missiles do a pretty fair job at it.</div>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Martin X. Moleski, SJ <moleski@canisius.edu><br>
To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>
Sent: Tue, Oct 2 11:03 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Airplane angle of attack<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_0_bbada622-c111-4164-8770-74cc58b4b6b4 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT><A href="mailto:rcmaster199@aol.com">rcmaster199@aol.com</A> wrote: > I remember watching a clip of a full size multi engine bomber type in > test flight. The test pilot banked hard to knife edge near the ground > (maybe 500 ft) for some unknown reason and swiftly proceeded to put it > in. Don't remember the plane's or test pilot's names. A very famous and sad case. B-52 bomber. Hot dog pilot. Practicing for an air show, not test piloting. <<A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVaAVN94sTs" target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVaAVN94sTs</A>> You can get lots of reports on the incident by googling Holland B-52 crash. Eerily similar RC B-52 crash: <<A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRmg88t35Y0" target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRmg88t35Y0</A>> Marty _______________________________________________ NSRCA-discussion mailing list <A href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A> <A href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion" target=_blank>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</A> </TT></PRE></div>
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