• @scarilog@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      This is the craziest Wikipedia article I’ve read in a while.

      Feel sad for the dudes mental health state, but damn, what a way to go. A well executed barrel roll in a q400, seemingly without prior flight experience. Wild.

    • @Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
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      66 months ago

      All planes can do a barrel roll. When executed properly a barrel roll is a 1g maneuver. At no point during a barrel roll should a plane experience any forces significantly different to level flight.

      The largest plan to ever be barrel rolled was a Concorde prototype.

    • @luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
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      36 months ago

      Still reading the article, but I felt compled to comment on the level of detail:

      Both [fighter jets] […] reached supersonic speeds, which generated sonic booms on the way to the Puget Sound area. [emphasis added]

      Are these sonic booms relevant to the actual incident? Probably not. But the author decided it was part of the events and decided to include it and I find that endearing.

      • Karyoplasma
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        16 months ago
        1. Sonic booms are cool

        2. Could have been a part of the incidence investigation to rule out that the crash was caused by the wake turbulence of the fighter jets going supersonic.

        • @luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
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          16 months ago
          1. agreed
          2. That may well be the reason they were noted in the first place, but the article makes no further mention of them if they were relevant, so it’s still an editorial choice whether to include that detail. There is no informational value to it, it doesn’t affect the rest of the article, just a minor note “fast plane make boom” because it’s cool.