Airplane Pics

[275RLTW]

Why the orange #2 on the last pict?

[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.

[Hoser]

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]

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

[Hoser]

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]

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.])

[TriggerHappy]

I took this a year or so ago. Got lucky with the moon. Citation X departing KAPA.

[TriggerHappy]

Here is another.

[Ridge]

I got some old A500 photos I took a few years ago...


DSC_0102 by Ridge_Runner_5, on Flickr


DSC_0105 by Ridge_Runner_5, on Flickr


DSC_0107 by Ridge_Runner_5, on Flickr


DSC_0110 by Ridge_Runner_5, on Flickr


DSC_0117 by Ridge_Runner_5, on Flickr

[Ridge]