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Video Surfaces of Russian Bomber Exploding on Takeoff
Russian TV ^

Posted on 01/21/2016 5:51:18 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

Horrific video clip at link of Russian Tu-95 exploding on takeoff. Seems to be fire/explosion starting on left wing. Seconds later, entire a/c involved. Then left main gear apparently collapses. All crew dead.

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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I saw an American two seat jet bomber blow up on the runway on Okinawa in 1968, and I saw a B-52 blow up on takeoff in Thailand 1969.
Can we say something bad about American engineering?


41 posted on 01/21/2016 7:23:06 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

June 8, 2015 when it happened?


42 posted on 01/21/2016 7:24:41 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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To: GBA

I live in the northern Chicago ‘burbs and, during the “winter of ‘79, a Lockheed P3B was turning onto the runway at the old Glenview Naval Air Station. The aircraft apparently turned wide and the #4 prop caught the snowbank alongside the runway. The prop shattered and a piece nailed the power turbine on the #3 engine. There was a parking lot nearby and, over and above the damage to the airplane, there was something like $180,000 worth of damage to the parked cars.


43 posted on 01/21/2016 7:25:32 PM PST by JayVee (Joseph)
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To: bravo whiskey; AndyJackson; DJ Taylor

Even “worse,” Tu-95 was/is modernized version of Tu-4, which was nothing more than reverse engineered B-29.


44 posted on 01/21/2016 7:31:33 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz (I carry a handgun because even a small police officer is too big and heavy to carry.)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

US Air force unveils S-400 KILLER MISSILES to scare Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A85Czh9KexI


45 posted on 01/21/2016 7:31:48 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy")
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

US Air force STEALTH UAV armed with LASER GUN to kill S-400 defence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPl_xKPI_5w


46 posted on 01/21/2016 7:32:27 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy")
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz
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47 posted on 01/21/2016 7:33:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EDST)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

Damn.


48 posted on 01/21/2016 7:33:30 PM PST by Pelham (Nikki Haley, ethnically cleansing South Carolina for the GOPe)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Ruy,

The Russians have designed some really sorry aircraft. This is NOT one of them. This has been a workhorse with a reasonable accident record. This is not even giving them a break for operating under some horrible conditions.

I think TU-95’s are cool for a number of reasons, not least because of their Flash Gordon looks.

Oldplayer


49 posted on 01/21/2016 7:48:03 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: wardaddy

From a 1926 poster:

“Aviating, like the Sea
is not inherently dangerous

But like that sea, it is ready
to punish the briefest moment’s
laxness or inattention.”

It was printed over a photograph of 100 acres of completely open prairie, with just one single, solitary tree... and an airplane in the tree.


50 posted on 01/21/2016 7:49:49 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz (I carry a handgun because even a small police officer is too big and heavy to carry.)
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To: JayVee
Yikes. Hopefully it was just cars. No place to run or time to with something like that.

I've seen pictures of B-29s that came back with amazing damage from a prop that came apart for whatever reason. Not buffing that out.

51 posted on 01/21/2016 7:53:34 PM PST by GBA (Here in the matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: OKSooner

That is what it looked like to me.


52 posted on 01/21/2016 8:00:11 PM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

OZ,

While Tupolev did make a direct, nearly identical copy of the B-29 in the TU-4, the TU-95 was very different. First, the wings are not mid-fuselage but are rather run through the top of the fuselage and have a lot of negative dihedral. PLUS, they used the knowledge from captured German engineering to make the wings severely swept back.

All in all, an interesting piece of engineering, no doubt accelerated by German and US knowledge, but in the end, it reflected Russia’s own engineering ideas. Like some of the early MIG’s, the compromises were ones they made for practical reasons.

Just my opinion.

Oldplayer


53 posted on 01/21/2016 8:00:26 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: spodefly

Looks like the #2 engine blows, and that leads to gear collapse, as gear is located in the engine pod.

You can see what appears to be the left flap separating from a/c.

Something like that could ruin your entire evening.


54 posted on 01/21/2016 8:09:20 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz (I carry a handgun because even a small police officer is too big and heavy to carry.)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

When I first saw it, I thought it was something with the port main mount, like a brake fire or something. The plane appeared to bo slowing to me, so they could have been jacking on the brakes.

Main mount collapses or is sheared off, port propellers hit runway as the nose of the plane careens towards the port side.

I saw a few of these planes from the deck of a carrier.


55 posted on 01/21/2016 9:18:51 PM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

Eh. I guess it wasn’t brakes unless they cooked something off...big flash...


56 posted on 01/21/2016 9:25:49 PM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: cassiusking

You’re right, we and our allies would never do that to the Russians, right? Good for you, lot’s of humanity there.


57 posted on 01/22/2016 12:15:54 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

Engine threw a rod. A really big rod. Wet wings full of avgas, not good.


58 posted on 01/22/2016 12:42:20 AM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: PLMerite

Turboprops have rods?


59 posted on 01/22/2016 1:00:44 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

dang


60 posted on 01/22/2016 1:10:37 AM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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