TU-95s were first flown in 1952 as were our B-52s.
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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TU-95s were first flown in 1952 as were our B-52s.
Doesn’t mean you can’t have empathy for someone dying a horrific death............that being said had they been muzzies...........
No one seems very concerned. It’s not exactly “oh the humanity” from the guy shooting the video.
Did you feel bad for all those SS men killed in WW2?
WWII was war. We are not at war with the men flying that plane. You are a hard one.
The most recent of the Tu-95s were built 22 years ago. The one that crashed is probably older than that.
What’s amazing is someone WAS shooting the video.
It’s a reminder of how much video is being recorded, that such a fluke incident is so perfectly recorded by chance (unless they regularly record practically _every_ takeoff), that it’s recorded at night (what’s to record, really?) even moreso.
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Putin has declared war on the west - no sympathy here and their airmen should refuse to fly these death traps.
Why have empathy for crews that have been conducting mock nuclear attacks on us and our allies?
We are not at war, but these Russian bomber crews are practicing attacks on the US.
Why?
The enemy of our enemy. . ..
Yeah, that might be right. You can see a couple possible blades flying around in the air after the initial explosion.
I thought they might have clipped a pole or beacon light.
It looks like an explosion in the left wing.
Was it sabotage? Russia has some Muslim republics and large Muslim population. There are many Muslims serving in Russian military.
At first I thought the flashes might be anti-collision strobes, but a prop coming apart at night on a contra-rotating set-up like the Tu-95 has might look like that, too.
Especially the explosion part.
Those Tupolevs are getting up there in years. Have to be a maintenance nightmare.
Why have empathy for crews that have been conducting mock nuclear attacks on us and our allies?
I would hope the Russkie aircrews would have sympathy for the families of our aircrews if something like this happened to our folks. It is a small fraternity, actually. Even Douglas Bader and Adolph Galland became friends after WWII. (And at one time, hardly anyone (friend or foe) liked Bader regardless of the flying.
Oldplayer
The speed of acceleration seemed awfully slow like all the engines are not producing 100% power and one or more of those faulty engines went kblooey. A prop hub could have gone or lost a blade on one prop could take out the port side main landing gear. AKA the Conorde crash. The thing has 8 props half going in opposite direction.
Disco Inferno
When my dad was training at Davis Monthan in 86s in 55 I think
They had an older WWII and Korea vet come in dead stick
His last words to tower were “I got it”
Hit the skid too hard and those donut fuel tanks in the fuselage went up like a marshmallow on the stick too long
Flying can be hazardous
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