Airplane Pics

**hip55** · 09-10-2010, 14:06

I saw 3 C-130s drop into South Park about 3 months ago - it was a very clear day & it was cool to see them doing their low level from the top of Kenosha Pass -

**Hoosier** · 09-10-2010, 15:28

Awesome pictures, going to send them to my aunt who was an air-medevac nurse on the Hurc.

Is that plane with the #2 on it the only one with those markings? If so, I've seen it low and slow over Pueblo West before.

H.

**275RLTW** · 09-10-2010, 17:14

Why the orange #2 on the last pict?

**rondog** · 09-10-2010, 23:37

Great photos! Were those taken from another plane, or from on the ground somewhere?

And for all you pilots, I've always wondered.....do large planes like that lose lift and altitude in steep banks like that? There's a video of a B-52 crashing while in a really steep banking turn, and it looks like it just fell outta the sky. Seems like the lift under the wings holds 'em up, and when the wings are turned sideways the lift would either go away or change direction, or something. I don't understand what holds 'em up.

**Hoser** · 09-11-2010, 07:45

Originally Posted by rondog

Great photos! Were those taken from another plane, or from on the ground somewhere?

And for all you pilots, I've always wondered.....do large planes like that lose lift and altitude in steep banks like that? There's a video of a B-52 crashing while in a really steep banking turn, and it looks like it just fell outta the sky. Seems like the lift under the wings holds 'em up, and when the wings are turned sideways the lift would either go away or change direction, or something. I don't understand what holds 'em up.

They were taken from the ground near Cheeseman reservoir.

As long as you are going fast, planes dont care which way is up/down. Low and slow is no time to be doing steep turns.

That B-52 crash up at Fairchild was pure pilot error. That crash changed US Military avaition bigtime. The pilot had a "history" of being stupid. Look up Darker Shades of Blue.

**ColoWyo** · 09-11-2010, 09:52

Awesome pictures Hoser. Do you think the passengers would mind if I tried that with an A320?

**Hoser** · 09-11-2010, 15:11

Originally Posted by ColoWyo

Awesome pictures Hoser. Do you think the passengers would mind if I tried that with an A320?

You dont have a hair on your ass...

**theGinsue** · 09-18-2010, 22:10

Thank you for sharing those pics. Absolutely awesome training you guys are doing. (of course, I'd poop my pants if you low-leveled like that over me. I might have had my career in the USAF, but I was a ground troop the whole time [discounting the times I went out with the Army in UH-1's and UH-60A's - I prefer to fly in rotor wing craft.])