B1 plane crashed in Rapid City
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It crashed on the base during training all 4 crew members ejected safely.
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Re: B1 plane crashed in Rapid City
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I think that half the fleet is gone, one way or the other. They are an impressive expensive huge machine and I have never seen one.....jk
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Re: B1 plane crashed in Rapid City
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They do touch and goes for practice they are impress flying over the Interstate they have the new planes or will be getting them out in Rapid also.
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Re: B1 plane crashed in Rapid City
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Seems like every other night we have helicopters flying over our place. We have a military base about 50 miles from us. Have never had this happen in the past like this.
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Re: B1 plane crashed in Rapid City
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Bad news, but glad the crew got out. Is the base at Rapid City still a hub for the B52s? Not sure if they were phased out or not yet, know the new ones will be there they said.
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Re: B1 plane crashed in Rapid City
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Oh no. Hope everyone is safe!
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Re: B1 plane crashed in Rapid City
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Some years back I was working at a National cemetery in Fort Scott,Kansas. There was a B1 fly over one day, they made a pass over the cemetery and banked around and came back over. Right over the cemetery they hit the afterburners, talk about impressive! Hard to believe a plane that large could be gone that fast. I'll bet they were back to Wichita before the smoke cleared. I'll never forget that. I watched our old OG commander come back to Whiteman from Barksdale. He made General and was flying back in a B-52. I never knew how agile and tight a circle one of those could fly........it was impressive and the entire time it looked like that aircraft would fall apart.
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Re: B1 plane crashed in Rapid City
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Nephew flew the BUFF B52's for many years while he was in the Air Force. Those fellas had to sit in a shoe box to fly those things. You would think as big as they are they would have better seating accommodations. Those seats have to be small/compact to aid in ejecting in an emergency.
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