nobody died! friday #42: B-1B Lancer wheels-up landing, Diego Garcia, May 8th 2006
November 13, 2009, 11:54pm
x planes
experimental aircraft. exotic aeromachines. oddities. sleek silver cigars. pedal-o-trons. soviet hive-mind bombers. aerial joy. the olden days. action shots. propaganda posters. etc
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nobody died! friday #41: Continental Air Lines Boeing 707, Kansas City Downtown Municipal Airport, 1st July 1965
November 13, 2009, 10:32pm
nobody died! friday: #39 Tanir Air Ilyushin 76TD catches fire whilst being loaded, Congo, 2007
(photo by “Serge”)
November 13, 2009, 8:20pm
nobody died! friday #38: Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Constellation, 19th July 1951
November 13, 2009, 7:02pm
nobody died! friday #37: Grumman F9F Panther sliced in two on the USS Midway, June 23rd 1951
(video here)
November 06, 2009, 11:03pm
nobody died! friday #35: Royal Air Force F-4 Phantom crashes after nose radome comes open in flight, 3rd June 1980
November 06, 2009, 7:39pm
nobody died! friday #34: Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2B-27 Islander, Durban, 2005
(photo by Gary Shephard)
November 06, 2009, 6:23pm
nobody died! friday #33
“”Machine of F. J. Courtney, winner of the London Aerial Derby was slightly injured when his machine upset while he was making a landing at Hendon. The plane is shown in the picture taken immediately after the accident was turned over upside down. It is a Martynside Semi-quaver.”
November 06, 2009, 3:06pm
Howard Hughes about to test fly the Hughes XF-11, 1946
Martin Scorsese does a pretty good job at showing what happened next
(warning: contains extreme peril)
October 07, 2009, 10:23pm
nobody died! friday #32: A-6 Intruder partial/accidental ejection, USS Abraham Lincoln, July 1991
(full details here)
September 25, 2009, 8:35pm
nobody died! friday #31: Piper Cherokee, Meadow Lake Airport, Dec 7th 2006
(the pilot was slightly injured climbing down from the tree. this incident was also the subject of a famous viral email, with a photoshopped image)
September 25, 2009, 6:42pm
nobody died! friday #30: North American X-15 at Mud Lake, Nevada, November 9 1962
September 25, 2009, 3:20pm
nobody died friday #29: Boeing E-3 Sentry overshoots runway, Greece, 1996
(photo by Holger Loersch)
September 18, 2009, 11:57pm
nobody died! friday #28: Silver Express Convair CV-240, Puerto Rico, 1997
(photo by Carlos Aleman)
September 18, 2009, 9:49pm
