And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"The record-breaking XB-42 prototype was destroyed in a crash on 16 December. On a routine flight out of Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., suffered in short order, a landing gear extension problem, failure of the left engine, and as coolant temperatures rose, failure of the right engine. Major Hayduck bailed out at 1,200 feet, Lt. Col. Haney at 800 feet, and the pilot Lt. Col. Fred J. Ascani, after crawling aft to jettison the pusher propellers, at 400 feet – all three survived. The aircraft crashed at Oxon Hill, Maryland."
Can you imagine jettisoning the props (a bizarre procedure all by itself) and then stepping out into thin air at 400 feet??
You don't want to go through the props when you jump out. I had a friend who skydived out of a 2 plane formation and the other airplane had fallen behind. She went through the prop of a King Air 90. One of the other skydivers flew over to what was left of her and pulled her emergency "D" ring. It was a real bad day.
Typically the 'mixmaster' appelation refers to the counter rotating propellers. Yet here we see the aft end of the German Pfiel, the empanage and fuselage of the C-130, the wings of the A-20, and the nose and bubble canopy of the B-47. Egads
From the wiki entry:
ReplyDelete"The record-breaking XB-42 prototype was destroyed in a crash on 16 December. On a routine flight out of Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., suffered in short order, a landing gear extension problem, failure of the left engine, and as coolant temperatures rose, failure of the right engine. Major Hayduck bailed out at 1,200 feet, Lt. Col. Haney at 800 feet, and the pilot Lt. Col. Fred J. Ascani, after crawling aft to jettison the pusher propellers, at 400 feet – all three survived. The aircraft crashed at Oxon Hill, Maryland."
Can you imagine jettisoning the props (a bizarre procedure all by itself) and then stepping out into thin air at 400 feet??
Ascani had "the right stuff" all right:
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I can't imagine needing to jettison the props if the plane was crashing. What is the rationale?
DeleteYou don't want to go through the props when you jump out. I had a friend who skydived out of a 2 plane formation and the other airplane had fallen behind. She went through the prop of a King Air 90. One of the other skydivers flew over to what was left of her and pulled her emergency "D" ring. It was a real bad day.
DeleteTypically the 'mixmaster' appelation refers to the counter rotating propellers. Yet here we see the aft end of the German Pfiel, the empanage and fuselage of the C-130, the wings of the A-20, and the nose and bubble canopy of the B-47. Egads
ReplyDeleteThe XB-43 Jetmaster showed more promise in an era of prop to jet transition.
ReplyDeletePhotos above in vicinity of Tucson (?)
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