Yea if thats the b1 back in the 90's that landed on top of my brother in law's parents house.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Raley -ITC wrote: > > One of the guys here said if you have seen Behind Enemy Lines when the > F-18 > > gets shot and the engines go out before it blows up it glides.. it will > give > > you an idea... > > > > Don't shoot the messenger > > Anything will 'glide' for a little while, if it is going fast enough! > Ok so maybe that would be more correctly called 'ballistic' but it still > moves stuff through the air. > > But reading a bit into the some of the witness reports, it sounds like > it was may have already been gliding and just did not have enough umph > to get to where the pilot hoped to get. > > A related incident I remember from some years ago, a large military > plane went down in a community, a B1 IIRC, at least some kind of large > 'flying wing' type air craft is what I have in my memory's eye. What I > recall from the news was that the pilots chose to ride the plane to the > ground so that they could guide it to miss a school. They succeeded by > just enough. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:282469 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
