c/upliftingnews pun obviously intended get recked terrorist America.
One down, a bunch more to go, thank you for your service in getting rid of these
Wat? There’s like 3 more left. They are a museum piece.
even modernized, those planes are old. OLD old. They all used to be packed with vacuum tubes sort of old. The last one ever built left the assembly line in 1962. 64 years ago.
I mean even so we should’ve had them all replaced not only by now, but with some regularity. Every moving part should’ve been inspected she tested before this flight. Ffs, we still have 58 in active service!
I’m not saying they’re perfect, but they are doing something right, and more care should’ve been taken before a test flight with civilians.
It’s the plane Slim Pickens flies in Dr. Strangelove
Well, that’s a Boeing, so a small percentage of crashes are to be expected.
They were built so long ago that it was back when Boeing’s engineering reputation was good.
Well, unfortunately the current priorities may not be the same as it was then.
No matter how well something is built, if the maintenance is bad, you waste all that good engineering.
Some of them are designed to not crash at all!
It is not immediately clear if there are any injuries.
Edit - newer info:
Monday afternoon, the base said eight people were on the aircraft during a routine test mission.
“Initial indications are that the crash was not survivable,”Edit - latest info:
Eight people died after a B-52 Stratofortress crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff on a test mission Monday from Edwards Air Force base in California’s Mojave Desert
It’s not like there’s ejection seats but it would be fuckin wild if someone managed to jump out of the bomb bay.
bomb bay
It’s been renamed to Mumbai
It’d’ve been wild if someone had managed to jump out the Mumbai
So they don’t have ejection seats.
That doesn’t bode well.
What, exactly, is your point? Aircraft crash without the crew being injured quite frequently.
I don’t know how you interpreted their comment, but I see it as a helpful heads up for the first question people ask when reading the headline.
An ML being helpful is a first for me.
I don’t know if it’s the Voyager client or I turned it off, but I can’t see anyone’s instance without an extra click. Blissfully unaware until I notice something bizarre and shitty, and I can block that one. I guess a sustained brigading or bot campaign from one instance could change my calculation. Mostly I’m aggressive about blocking the ai slop and the cartoony-pornish and is okay
The point was: my first question reading the headline - how many were injured.
So I went and read the article, then quoted it here so people don’t need to do the same.
Human life is still human life. I don’t wish death or injury on anyone. *Except in maybe 5 special cases (but out of billions it is not a bad ratio)It crashed in a big fireball, as aircraft full of fuel tend to do. Fun fact, many of these dump their fuel – or used to–before they land.
Yeah dumping fuel is standard before attempting any risky landing in any plane. You want to minimize the changes of a fire all. That takes quite a while though. Definitely not something happening on takeoff when it’s fully loaded and fueled.
Well did a wave hit it? Was it made with cardboard or any cardboard derivatives?
So no paper?
Oh no, poor US nazis. Cry me a river.
Suckers and losers.
The people downvoting can take a fucking hike. Anyone willingly serving shitstain bigoted pigs are valid targets and dont deserve to be mourned.
Resign or accept the fucking consequences of cowardice.
ohhh no the poor genociders. 🙁
Ooooh. Geno’s Hard Cider would be a great brand name.
The USA is ran by fascist who work for the capitalist. They are unpopular and willing to false flag in order to build up the already bloated military budget. The rift between israel and the USA is just for show. Netinyahoo isn’t really in charge. People need to remember the capitalist are in charge. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire
This would be a terrible idea for a false flag, this is an aircraft older than the typical US senator, operating from a base in the middle of the USA. It’s most likely that this was a mechanical issue.
this is an aircraft older than the typical US senator
Let’s not get too hasty, the B-52H variant was first produced in 1961, making it 65 years old. A 65 year old incumbent senator still has three, maybe four good decades left in office…
And whay link yout rant has with the current topic?
Wait what the hell is a Stratofortress? i only know that as the stratovarius song.
(I’m not allowed to view the article for some reason, access denied)
It’s a flying fortress that flies in the stratosphere. Duh.
How the hell have you not heard of the B-52 stratofortress?
One of today’s lucky 10,000?
not noncredibledefense
I realise that, but it’s a very famous aircraft type.
I thought the Stratofortress was just ten times bigger than a 747, and I worked in loading them shits topside and I ran the k[loader and oh!
The important points are: do not loiter in front of or behind of giant demonic turbines
Lol Jack Parsons was a roll sma-t shit
https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/compare-aircraft-results.php?aircraft1=19&aircraft2=247
Edited. Possibly the badass name “Stratofortress” was subsumed
Image from the article
What a wildly disproportionate-looking aircraft
That’s because of the era it was designed it. It is from the dawn of the jet age. Jet engines weren’t very powerful yet and they believed they had to have very thin and very swept wings to get the speeds they wanted. It was before thrust reversers so it uses drogue chutes. Its wings are too thin to support the weight of the craft so the main landing gear are in the fuselage and the wings droop so much they have the wheels on the wing tips. They were too afraid to have the weight of the plane and payload rotate on take off to the rear wheels so the flaps are so aggressive it actually takes off with a nose down attitude. The front wheels are the last to leave the pavement and the first to touch it. It’s just a really strange design because they were still learning about jet design.
The aircraft is also permanently at takeoff attitude on the ground, the front landing gear is significantly longer than the rear. Also, both sets of main gear rotate, so it can crab down the runway, this is for landing in crosswinds.
Yeah, weird plane.
To be fair that’s an upward angle on a plane taking off, with the flaps fully extended for maximum lift.
This is what a B-52 looks like when in a regular flight configuration.
It’s still kinda janky looking tbh. Like someone put a commercial airliner in MS Paint and just stretched everything away from where the wings meet the fuselage.
Bombers tend to look like that, they have a very small fuselage compared to a passenger aircraft. Very compact cargo.
Yo mama
There is a reason it has the nickname BUFF.
Big Ugly Fat Fuck.
But GOD can they fly!
…well not this one, not anymore. But usually.
It’s because the cargo they’re built to carry is very dense, hence the very slim fuselage.
