Just going through some old photographs and came across this photo my sister was dating an American pilot at the time by the name of Tim. From what I understand he got past the no return option and ran out of runway. I think this took place in the Sates anyone know anything about this just curious.
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By: beachcomber - 11th July 2015 at 11:45
Hi Time – Great to hear from you I’ll send you a pm soon I’m a bit jet lagged at the moment got back last night
By: DragonRapide - 9th July 2015 at 19:10
Welcome to the Forum Tim!
Great to hear about this incident from the “horse’s mouth”!
By: Bomber dude - 9th July 2015 at 18:16
Hey Mike, was surfing the net and saw the post! Yes that was my accident at Castle in 1988! Dragonfly was correct in brakes being locked on the aircraft, luckily no one was seriously injured! Would love to talk! Tim
By: Dragonflyer - 18th January 2015 at 17:42
Thanks for the comments guys – spoke with my sister last night she seems to think it was 1988 and thinks Tim might have been under supervision for the take off
Could well have been. At the time Castle was the B-52 Combat Crew Training base and did all the initial qualification training.
By: beachcomber - 18th January 2015 at 11:43
Thanks for the comments guys – spoke with my sister last night she seems to think it was 1988 and thinks Tim might have been under supervision for the take off
By: Dragonflyer - 17th January 2015 at 23:28
Both, actually. I believe the yellow tanker on the right is the foam supply/dispenser, the yellow fire truck on the left is a basic “fire truck”, and hidden in front of the left wing is a green fuel truck, probably defueling the aircraft, with the other two available for fire suppression support in case of an emergency.
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th January 2015 at 16:16
Thanks for clearing that up. Good thing the plane never caught fire.
By: scorpion63 - 17th January 2015 at 13:10
It’s not a fuel truck it’s a foam tanker you can see the foam monitor on the back of the trailor
By: Dragonflyer - 17th January 2015 at 01:25
Yep. I suspect that’s what they were doing. Trying to haul the aircraft away with 300,000+ pounds of fuel onboard and no landing gear to roll on would be tricky!
By: Arabella-Cox - 16th January 2015 at 20:45
Why did the fuel truck come out to the plane? :stupid:
Sorry, maybe to defuel…
By: Dragonflyer - 16th January 2015 at 17:35
I’m pretty sure that’s the Castle AFB crash….too brown and dry to be Loring (very green, lots of trees up there!). I was the Director of Recce Operations at Beale at the time (about 100 miles north) and when we heard about the crash I sent one of our U-2 training sorties over Castle the next day and photographed the base for the investigators to use. Even with a very quick glance when we developed the film that evening it was obvious that at least part of the problem was a dragging brake; you could follow the black skid mark from a point on the parallel taxiway to the final resting spot. I believe they determined that one of the rear landing gear wheels was locked up and reduced the acceleration on takeoff enough that they couldn’t get a heavy aircraft to liftoff speed nor feel the resistance. BTW, it was a “G”, with the tail gunner up front running the gun remotely. If it had been an older “D” model, with the gunner in the tail, he’d have seen the skid marks and they’d have aborted the mission and saved the aircraft!
By: Mike J - 16th January 2015 at 16:36
Possibly this one http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=48296
Or this one: http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=153233
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January 16, 2015 at 4:08 pm