• Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Good on the Bones crew all safe. Doesn’t really say what happened. They train on low level terrain flying around there.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      8 months ago

      I don’t know about the B-1 specifically, but I know a lot of military aircraft use a “zero zero” rejection seat, meaning it will still work correctly at zero speed and zero altitude. I first learned about them in the late 80s so I assume they’re pretty widespread by now.

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    8 months ago

    “Visibility was poor with freezing temperatures and low clouds at the time.” I thought something that costs ~$(insert shit-ton amount here) would have a world class ILS in use