Happy you remember buddyImagine being on board this...
Very much appreciate it, yes I have a good sense of what I am in for, so when the cop is right behind me he wont see my head and i wont see anything but the nose of the car, got-yaMike: Wonder of wonders, while running an errand in the car yesterday, I REMEMBERED!
Stopped in the middle of the back road to our place and grabbed this shot. Not the greatest but I think it gives you the "look" of "split vision." :-)
I was stationed at Fairchild shortly after this happened, which was also the same week Dean Melberg shot up the hospital. We used the video to this day to teach crew resource management and help avoid the pitfalls of “air show syndrome” and other fallacies. The PIC was so dangerous no other Copilot would fly with him so the Stan/Eval pilot was the only one who stepped up….it was a mistake he never lived to regret.Mike: Wonder of wonders, while running an errand in the car yesterday, I REMEMBERED!
Stopped in the middle of the back road to our place and grabbed this shot. Not the greatest but I think it gives you the "look" of "split vision." :-)
Coincidentally, since we were talking about flying formation.. I was watching a "History Guy" clip the other day about a B-52 crash back in '94 I think it was. Fairchild AFB, practice the day before an airshow. Tried a 60+ angle of bank turn at five hundred feet and didn't hold altitude. The incompetent PIC lost his life along with four or five of his compadres. A known flat hatting LtCol at the controls with the head Stan guy for the Wing and other "safety observers. "Czar 52" was the callsign.
Imagine being on board this...
Just out there....wingin' it.
Do you contact multimatic for the uprights?
Tob I have 1 question and 1 request:
That picture flashed back some bad memories! I was almost killed in that crash (along with my entire class). I was at survival school at the time. We were in the building right next to where it impacted. It was loud! We ran out the opposite side exit... the fire was hot and debris was everywhere. He clipped the power line going into our building. Through pure dumb luck, the impact was right between our classroom building and a weapons storage facility. It was one of those events in life you never forget.
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Next time I'm in the shop I'll see what I can come up with. That said, I wouldn't waste my time or money on titanium for a simple upright. Not sure if your shop would be modeling the upright from scratch but that isn't too difficult in CAD. But titanium is hard on tooling and offers little advantage in terms of weight or strength in this case. 6061-T6 is the standard material used outside of exotics or composites which really aren't necessary.
Well the brackets now they are going to see about making it, I figured I'd ask them to extend the current bracket design and make them longer as another set, but I guess let me see what they come up with in price for the replica set first I guess.