Quote Originally Posted by rondog View Post
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.