Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders' plane crashes northwest of Seattle

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Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders' plane crashes northwest of Seattle. Search and rescue underway

[Sarah Barracuda]

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BREAKING: Former astronaut William Anders who took iconic Earthrise photo has died in Washington plane crash

[ETCM]

It appears he was doing some sort of stunt, maybe a loop. He didn’t have quite enough altitude to recover. It did not look survivable IMO.

[Ezekiel]

Thanks for that important memory trigger!

Anders: Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! There's the Earth coming up. Wow, that's pretty.
Borman: Hey, don't take that, it's not scheduled. (joking)[1]
Anders: (laughs) You got a color film, Jim?
Hand me that roll of color quick, would you...
Lovell: Oh man, that's great!

There were many images taken at that point. The mission audio tape establishes several photographs were taken, on Borman's orders, with the enthusiastic concurrence of Jim Lovell and Anders. Anders took the first color shot, then Lovell who notes the setting (1/250th of a second at f/11), followed by Anders with another very similar shot (AS08-14-2384).

AS08-14-2383 (21713574299), from which Earthrise was cropped. The photo is displayed here in its original orientation as seen by the crew of Apollo 8. Lunar north is up.[10]

Earthrise

[PghBaldy]

Frank Borman just died in November.

[Thank You Rush]

How interesting. Thanks for the link. My husband’s good friend from teenage summer vacations in San Diego was Tom Friedkin (my husband’s divorced parents, (Mom in L. A., Dad in San Diego). Tom’s dad started PSA. He had war planes kept in Carlsbad, CA. My husband used to fly in to see him. He had hangars there for his and her (wife) airplanes..

Convair? San Diego? My father in law worked for Consolidated Vultee in San Diego (?) - before my time in the family..

My husband used to speak of Tom as a millionaire. I ran across his obit and I told my husband, “Tommy wasn’t a millionaire. He was a billionaire.”

[Drago]

His museum has 3 T-34’s:

https://heritageflight.org/aircraft/beechcraft-t-34/

https://heritageflight.org/about/maj-gen-bill-anders/

https://heritageflight.org

(His 2 sons also involved with the museum).

[Ezekiel]

T-34 Mentor

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[laplata]

Thanks for that information. An awesome photo and I never gave any thought about who took it.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

He likely died at the controls before the crash.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’d wager suicide. Decided to leave doing what he loved.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

No. This one was a a high throttle setting and clearly had fuel.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There’s nothing like the sound of a P-51. The B-17 and B-24 WW II bombers with four radials all sounded cool, too.

[A strike]

Foolish idiocy.
John Denver ran out of gas over the ocean AND didn’t have the skill to glide down to the surface, if that might have saved him.
Not at all the case with Anders.

[null and void]

What was he doing with a Pilots License at that age?

Flying.

[Jane Long]

🙄

So says A strike....we can have a memory based on whatever we want to, foolish thought police.

[A strike]

Seriously?, you suggest this case of an astronaut pilot to that of a lightweight music player ?

[Paal Gulli]

The first of that looks like he was either split-S-ing or coming out of the top of a loop. The arc looked smooth, like he was in control, but just didn’t have enough airspace to pull up in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_S

That’s one of the three things that will never do a pilot any good.

All the runway that’s behind you.
All the air that’s above you.
And all the fuel that’s on the ground.

[Justa]

“There’s nothing like the sound of a P-51.”

Certainly. I’ve heard it a few times with the turbo supercharger whine. Pretty impressive at low altitude flybys.

However, it is far exceeded by the sound of a fully loaded F-16 taking off with maximum throttle afterburner from 100 meters distance. THAT is power! A giant sheet being ripped apart. Unforgettable.