Aviation Thread

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Dashcam from Anela Hadžić

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FmPpJ9cPZ/

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[Walks_At_Night]

Making a bad situation worse in Dogshitastan.

https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1987195196908405143

[Uncle Duke]

Making a bad situation worse in Dogshitastan.

https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1987195196908405143

Wow.  I've seen many helicopter mishap videos/films, but nothing ever like that.  I don't think the pilot realized he'd snapped the tail boom.  Since this helo doesn't have a tail rotor, I wonder if that tail has any pilot actuated
control surfaces?  Admittedly I'm not a helicopter guy, but I think the primary issue with the snapped boom was that it kept flopping around, changing the mass properties of the helicopter as the boom flopped.  Tough to keep something stable that is constantly changing c.g. and mass moments of inertia. 

He stayed in the air for quite awhile before he crashed.  Cockpit voice recorder, if there is one, will be interesting hearing the pilot talk to his soon to be dead passengers as they are bouncing around the sky.  Also curious to see if any of the passengers used their cell phones before impact?

Was that gunfire a few seconds prior to impact?

[Uncle Duke]

https://x.com/Osint613/status/1988233074966954205

That's a bomb or missile.  I've seen aircraft structurally fail catastrophically before, but not like this.  An aircraft that structurally compromised would have never passed a maintenance final and/or a pre-flight inspection.

[JUAN]

There's something falling screen right.  Is that a piece of the plane?
Man that's a long time to think about crashing.

[Uncle Duke]

There's something falling screen right.  Is that a piece of the plane?
Man that's a long time to think about crashing.

Looks like the cargo ramp door.

[Walks_At_Night]

This kid was dicking around with an 88 gun an accidently nailed that C-130.   Oopsies.

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[Uncle Duke]

This kid was dicking around with an 88 gun an accidently nailed that C-130.   Oopsies.

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Funny thing......earlier this evening my daughter asked me about the break up of the aircraft after having seen the video.  I told her the only thing I'd ever seen that even remotely looked like that 130 video were films taken during WW2 of B-24/B-17s folding up after a direct hit by 88mm shells. There was one clip of a B-17 disintegrating after a flak hit that was used in a lot of movies and TV series.  I think "12 O'clock High" showed that clip in just about every episode.

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Why Ships and Planes Use ‘Knots’ Instead of Miles per Hour

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[Walks_At_Night]

Indian down at the above air show

https://x.com/shivu7272/status/1991817269920645220

[Uncle Duke]

Indian down at the above air show

https://x.com/shivu7272/status/1991817269920645220

The a/c involved is an Indian home-grown lightweight fighter, the Tejas.  The type took nearly 15 years to become operational after its first flight. Indian government bureaucracy is legendary, going back to the days of the Raj.  They've been trying for years to flog the Tejas to foreign customers, hence its demonstration at a big-time airshow.  Crashing in front of potential customers is not a good look. 

Possible the pilot became incapacitated or otherwise incapable of pulling up, no apparent attempt to eject. G lock is the first thought is such situations, although the maneuvers flown just prior to the mishap didn't appear to be extreme. "Air Forces Monthly" will almost certainly do a detailed article on this mishap.