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04-04-2008, 08:18 PM
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| Der Crewchief   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| B-1 bomber crashes in Qatar; crew safe Quote:
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04-04-2008, 09:37 PM
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| aka Dickcheese  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| $hit
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04-04-2008, 10:31 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Jacksonville, NC
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| I'm happy the crew is safe.
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04-05-2008, 12:36 AM
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| Banned Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Pine Mountain Lake, California
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| Heard about this on NPR earlier today; heard the crew ejected safely, and that the crash was due to "mechanical failure". Unfortunately, another billion-dollar B-1 "bites the dust", literally & figuratively. |
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04-05-2008, 11:02 AM
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| “Archive”  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Wisconsin
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| Im kinda confused, SBC Yahoo had posted yesterday it was a B-52 that crashed with same info above but has since removed it. Any one know for sure what fly's out of this base.
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04-05-2008, 11:09 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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I'm glad the crew got out safely.
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04-05-2008, 11:29 AM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| And I think there's something like 30 of them in the bone yard - easily replaced if necessary.
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04-05-2008, 01:12 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Pine Mountain Lake, California
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I know there have been quite a few upgrades and retrofits since the B-1 went into service, so the actual cost of the a/c is probably a little more than 283M. And, once again, I'm plugging my (second) favorite magazine, Smithsonian's Air & Space; go here for a very recent article on the B-1's "comeback": Air & Space Magazine | Military Aviation | The Bone is Back | |
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04-05-2008, 03:44 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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04-05-2008, 04:39 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bucharest
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| At least the crew got out safely because after all the human factor its the most important in an army.You can have 1000 B1's, if you don't have anyone to fly them they are useless...
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04-05-2008, 05:23 PM
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04-05-2008, 08:26 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Glad that the crew made it out....
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04-05-2008, 08:54 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Not wanting to take away from the exhilaration of the Bone's pilots making it home, but you have to admit that a 50m (145ft) long airplane weighing up to 148,000kgs (360,000lbs) doing a high performance roll is pretty DAMN impressive.
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04-05-2008, 10:35 PM
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| "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| It was REAL impressive. I saw it happen. Unfortunately, in those days I only had a 300mm lens, so I didn't cath it with the lens. I remember hearing a a collective gasp from the crowd and thought to myself "That kicked azz!"
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04-05-2008, 10:48 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| As I mentioned a few times here my father in law was the production test pilot on the B-1B. He set a whole bunch of world speed and altitude records during the 4th of July weekend, 1987. Upon returning from his last B-1 flight in front of a whole gaggle of folks he came over Plant 42 in Palmdale (Rockwell's B-1 production facility) and proceeded to do an immelman withthe wings extended - despite his pending retirement, he did get an asschewing.
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