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    the youtube thing has been inop for months.
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      Nothing sounds like a radial....
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        I'm guessing they want to take it to Oshkosh. I have media credentials waiting for me, if I can get back there. As always, Oshkosh will be epic.

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          "Basler’s specialists are doing the restoration because they have dismantled plenty of old C-47s and technicians had many of the parts they needed. The plane had a successful engine test in December, and Commemorative Air Force hopes to see “That’s All, Brother” take flight in the coming days.

          "Ultimately, Mr. Chetwynd said, the goal is to fly the plane over Normandy in 2019 to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day."

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            Completely unrelated (but kind of), basler is the company that hangs Pratt and Whitney pt6's off the front of old dc3's.

            When I graduated from college, I sniffed around there looking for a job. I had an interview scheduled, but a twin otter job came available in the south Pacific. Seemed like a better adventure.
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              Not so unrelated! Basler bought it to dissemble for parts or convert it and sell. The museum guys tracked down the tail number, found it there still intact, and raised the money to buy it.

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                Am I the only one that is captivated by the investigations that occur after a crash?

                To me, its a mixture of science, and even looking into people's lives. Something about it really is interesting of looking at what went wrong - and how a simple mistake can cause such trouble. Like a ground crew setting a normally "auto" function to manual, and the pilots not seeing it.
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                  Not at all. A friend and I are on the email as soon as something bad happens, reading the reports, wondering how it could have happened. The Air France plane lost in the South Atlantic because they read the signs wrong and it stalled, the Tenerife 747 collision, the Asian 777 that hit the runway bulkhead in San Francisco recently, the lost Malaysia plane - they're all so interesting. Mocking up the recovered pieces in a hanger and trying to learn what happened - like you said, it's science and old fashioned detective work.

                  Another weird one - my dad was supposed to be on a DC-4 from Denver to SLC in 1955. He and his boss were headed over for meetings. My dad was feeling sick and decided he shouldn't go. The pilot essentially took a short cut where they curved around the mountains and slammed head on into Medicine Bow Peak in southern Wyoming, the only mountain anywhere near there higher than his altitude.

                  Nobody really talked about it since it happened so many years before I was born, but I looked up the report. They were simpler then, and only took a couple of months to turn out.

                  Flight 409 - All 66 on board died.


                  It hit the 12,005' cliff at about 11,570'. They said it appeared he was trying to climb. He may have been in clouds. Some loggers at a camp 10 miles away saw a 4-engine plane pass overhead and later heard what sounded like a cannon or mining blast.

                  Bits are still on the mountain.

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                    ^ That is absolutely nuts. If your dad hadn't been feeling sick, you wouldn't exist.

                    Stuff like that is pretty crazy to think about.


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                      Originally posted by george graves View Post
                      Am I the only one that is captivated by the investigations that occur after a crash?

                      To me, its a mixture of science, and even looking into people's lives. Something about it really is interesting of looking at what went wrong - and how a simple mistake can cause such trouble. Like a ground crew setting a normally "auto" function to manual, and the pilots not seeing it.
                      I honestly think that is a really cool thing to look into. I love looking at the simulation of the plane before the crash and looking at the control inputs to basically see how they got themselves into the situation.
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                        they have team here that does that kind of stuff. we see some of the reports in training and the pics are horrible. sometimes we get some of the parts to help tear down for the investigation team but its real rare.


                        I hate when stuff goes down because of something stupid like the builder forget to pin a compressor blade or a gp blade and the blade fragged out an hour into the flight and blew the back of the engine off the helicopter. I really feel bad because that is someone's son or daughter flying that helicopter/plane and to lose them because someone fell asleep or was day dreaming about going to the club, terrible

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                          My favorite air disaster is American Airlines Flight 191 on May 25, 1979.



                          One of the wing mounted engines blew off the airplane on take off. The pilots recognized the issue as an engine failure, pitched the nose up to climb out at the critical engine failure speed. Unbeknownst to them, the leading edge slats retracted asymmetrically when the engine came off. This resulted in an unrecoverable stall a few hundred feet above the ground. All 271 perished on this one as well as a couple on the ground who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

                          Speaking of American mishaps, I was incredibly close to this one.



                          I was flying from Cleveland/Hopkins to New York Kennedy on this day. It was one of those beautiful sunny days in the northeast where you could easily see for 100+miles. We were perhaps 60 miles from JFK when we received an electronic message from dispatch saying we were required immediately to divert to Allentown, pa. We are like, wtf??!!! So I sent a message back asking why? A minute or two later air traffic control issues us a hold about another 15 or 20 miles closer to the airport. We did perhaps 4 orbits while we worked out the details of our diversion. I distinctly remember a japan airlines 747 holding 1000 feet below us and maybe 5 or 6 others in the stack at 1000 foot increments above. I think our altitude was about 15000 feet and I’m not sure of the distance, but geographically, we were over New Jersey a bit past the eastern border of Pennsylvania.

                          Every time we made the turn back toward the east, I could distinctly see a little strip of land south of the airport which emanated a huge plume of black smoke.

                          Once we were heading toward Allentown and in the decent, the air traffic controller announced somewhat cryptically that a wide body had gone down in the New York area. Immediately, I knew it was the crash site that we’d seen from the air.

                          Keep in mind, this was just a couple months removed from September 11th. Even the air traffic controller implied it could be terrorist related. We were shitting our pants.
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                            this is one I find interesting, Air France 4590 mostly due to the finger pointing and ass covering of Air France after the fact...... and all the shenanigans in the french courts to make the covering more official make it even more interesting than just why the aircraft caught fire and mashed into a hotel 2 mins after it left the ground



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                              How about we get away from things crashing and have a look and listen to some V12s and R2800s?
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