Plane Crash

[theshmoo]

Air shows are dangerous.

https://www.break.com/index/airshowcrash27.html

Safer on your bike than at an air show.
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CBR 1100 blackbird.

[andrea]

OMG that was awful...

[theshmoo]

Its ok I think she missed everyone.
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CBR 1100 blackbird.

[MementoMori]

Please somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that plane is a MiG-29 Fulcrum, and the move the pilot's trying to pull off is called the Cobra manoeuvre, famous with those planes because they don't stall when they do it. Looks like this one did stall though, and he lost too much altitude before he could power up again to get out of the situation.
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The tiger who came for a pint

[killa]

[carlnicholson...]

It was either a MiG 29 Fulcrum or a Sukhoi SU27 Flanker, I don't recall.

I was an aircraft engineer in the RAF when it happened, and we were shown the vid as a stark reminder of what can go wrong. Quite a few people were killed, and if I remember correctly, the pilot didn't make it either.

It was pilot error, incorrect airspeed and altitude meant that the aircraft was on the point of stalling, and didn't have enough height to regain speed.

A hefty price to pay for having the throttle a couple of degrees too far back.
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"THOSE WHO RISK NOTHING, DO NOTHING, ACHIEVE NOTHING, BECOME NOTHING."

[Wooly R6]

i reckon mig 29 - and those are the reasons that airshows (in the uk anyway) usually have the rules that "NO PLANE IS ALLOWED WITHIN A CERTAIN DISTANCE OF THE CROWD OR FLY OVER THEM" apart from the red arrows when arriving or leaving but this may have changed too!!!
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R6 has been sold - 2004 Honda VFR VTEC now sold too - no bike at the moment

[DEN MONKEY]

Damn that dude shooting the second bit of footage i think it is must have been shitting himself. That was farkin close.

Never mind how you would be walking away from the hotdog stand to look up and see that f^&(er about to lob on ya noggin .
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meh