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9/16/2011 10:19:43 PM

^ HHHAHAHHA... EXTREEEEEEEEEME!

9/16/2011 10:20:46 PM

per CNN comments section:

Quote :

"Everyone who goes to these shows has a small part of them that wants to see a crash. Maybe not be crashed in to but hey beggars can't be choosers. "

Also, if you youtube "Reno plane", something like 30% of the videos are of different crashes from different years at this event. 30%, no lie.

[Edited on September 16, 2011 at 10:25 PM. Reason : ]

9/16/2011 10:23:57 PM

well, a video of the actual racing would be pretty damn boring

*plane goes by*

....

*plane goes by*

....

*2 planes go by*

etc.

9/16/2011 10:27:25 PM

The announcer is the best part. He's saying "nothing to see here folks" when there is obviously a pile of bodies to see and everyone ignores him.

9/16/2011 10:27:44 PM

^http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVtinv5LSnE

9/16/2011 10:28:46 PM

^^^ haha yeah, I dont get it either, would so not entertain me at all

[Edited on September 16, 2011 at 10:28 PM. Reason : d]

9/16/2011 10:28:48 PM

The youfags are already posting their worthless opinions about the crash

and spamtubefags are already creating stupid pointless still-picture videos set to annoying music with reno crash titles.


I weep for the ignorance in this country.

[Edited on September 16, 2011 at 10:29 PM. Reason : ...]

9/16/2011 10:28:49 PM

Quote :

"Update 25 patients at St. Mary's 22 at Renown 3 confirmed dead + the pilot"

9/16/2011 10:30:24 PM

http://www.facebook.com/JimmyLeeward


Homeboy is a bit fucking old to be flying planes in races. He should be flying a hover-round or relaxing in his craftmatic adjustable bed or walking along the beach with a metal detector, not out there pretending to be Chuck Yeager.

It's bad enough old people drive their crown victorias through farmers markets, but do they have to fly into groups of people, too? Fuck, dude, you're 80.

[Edited on September 16, 2011 at 10:55 PM. Reason : ]

9/16/2011 10:34:35 PM

Anyone see the plane shape in the clouds?

God is a huge fan of planes...and crashes.

9/16/2011 10:37:25 PM

you really are a fucking loser.

9/16/2011 10:43:16 PM

Quote :

"Homeboy is a bit fucking old to be flying planes in races. He should be flying a hover-round or relaxing in his craftmatic adjustable bed or walking along the beach with a metal detector, not out there pretending to be Chuck Yeager."

First of all, I'm pretty sure that this was mechanical or possibly structural failure that caused this, not the pilot (although I suppose it's possible that it was GLOC).

...and I bet that most of the pilots of those airplanes are pretty old. It takes a while to get the skill, money, connections, and experience to land a seat flying an unlimited-class Reno racer.

9/16/2011 11:09:00 PM

RIP Jimmy Leeward, he died doing what he loved

9/16/2011 11:14:44 PM

Someone suggested he blacked out for a few seconds, I don't know why I believe this. I think it's because engine problems don't make the planes fly off course

9/16/2011 11:16:54 PM

if you think the only thing mechanical on an airplane is the engine then GTFO

9/16/2011 11:18:14 PM

I heard his scarf blew around and covered up his goggles

9/16/2011 11:19:54 PM

Quote :

"RIP Jimmy Leeward, he died doing what he loved"

well, hopefully the people in the crowd "loved" watching planes crash, cuz that's how they died.

Quote :

"First of all, I'm pretty sure that this was mechanical or possibly structural failure that caused this, not the pilot (although I suppose it's possible that it was GLOC). ...and I bet that most of the pilots of those airplanes are pretty old. It takes a while to get the skill, money, connections, and experience to land a seat flying an unlimited-class Reno racer."

I don't know shit about flying planes, but I imagine it is more taxing on the body than driving very slow in traffic, and 80 year olds don't seem to be able to handle that very well either. Alls i'm sayings is, I wouldn't expect an 80 year old to be racing in an F1 or Nascar event, so it seems a bit peculiar that we would let an 80 year old race a plane, where he could potentially land ANYWHERE.

I think a general rule of thumb should be that you aren't allowed to do anything if that act is likely going to make you shit your pants. That would effectively work around any age discrimination and be pretty non-biased across the board.

[Edited on September 16, 2011 at 11:22 PM. Reason : ]

9/16/2011 11:20:21 PM

^ you forget, he was probably "EXTREEEEEEEME!"

9/16/2011 11:21:07 PM

What do you think it was? A flap failure?

9/16/2011 11:21:19 PM

i have no idea what it was

9/16/2011 11:22:28 PM

Let's not forget that lifespans are increasing and 80 year olds are a lot more capable than they used to be.


Let's not forget that you'll be 80 one day, so you're digging your own grave by limiting what old people can and can't do.

[Edited on September 16, 2011 at 11:24 PM. Reason : .]

9/16/2011 11:24:07 PM

there is no fucking way it was engine failure. the flaps wouldn't be down at that speed. the only way it would be flaps would be if one broke and jammed an aileron or something.

my guess is that some sort of flight control jammed or broke or something, but that's just a wild ass guess based on the ltitle bit that i could see in that video.

9/16/2011 11:24:59 PM

I don't know much about autopilot or ejection system.


I'm guessing the plane had neither one?

9/16/2011 11:26:27 PM

sucks

9/16/2011 11:26:30 PM

he probably had his turn signal on during the entire flight.

9/16/2011 11:28:23 PM

^^^ haha, this was a ~70 year old airplane, so no ejection seat. being a racer, it wouldn't have an autopilot or anything, and if it did, it wouldn't be used while pylon racing, haha.

9/16/2011 11:29:46 PM

he was probably tying up the passing lane and got flustered by someone blowing by on the right

9/16/2011 11:34:55 PM

Quote :

"haha, this was a ~70 year old airplane, so no ejection seat. being a racer, it wouldn't have an autopilot or anything, and if it did, it wouldn't be used while pylon racing, haha. "

Common sense told me it's an old plane, but common sense also told me these guys were rich enough, smart enough, and capable enough to invent/pioneer/install the latest and greatest technologies into their planes.

common sense was confused.

9/16/2011 11:37:18 PM

Quote :

"I don't know shit about flying planes, but I imagine it is more taxing on the body than driving very slow in traffic, and 80 year olds don't seem to be able to handle that very well either. Alls i'm sayings is, I wouldn't expect an 80 year old to be racing in an F1 or Nascar event, so it seems a bit peculiar that we would let an 80 year old race a plane, where he could potentially land ANYWHERE."

Who exactly were you talking about? Because Jimmy Leeward was 74, and he'd been air racing for 40 years

9/16/2011 11:40:01 PM

So where is the real video. I don't care about the ukrane

9/16/2011 11:43:12 PM

oh, well then that changes everything

9/16/2011 11:43:51 PM

I know right.

Tww is an unreliable news source

9/16/2011 11:46:13 PM

^^^^^ they are. why the hell would they want an autopilot in an airplane like that?

as far as ejection seats, i mean, i have probably 800-900 hours of riding in them, but i don't know that much about the challenges of installing them in an airplane that was never designed to accommodate them...i've never heard of that being done. it might simply be a case of trying to minimize weight, with them being race planes...i don't know. there's also a lot of legal shit that goes along with ejection seats...you don't see them in civil airplanes very often. in many cases, when civil pilots buy, for example, old communist-bloc jets, they actually have the seats de-armed. i think a lot of that is to save on the cost of annuals, which would be a non-issue to an unlimited-class race team.

[Edited on September 16, 2011 at 11:52 PM. Reason : ^^^^^]

9/16/2011 11:49:59 PM

by the way, if he ejected, there could have been many, many more casualties

maybe the planes need self-destruct funtions, so they obliterate into millions of pieces that flutter down harmlessly.

9/17/2011 12:04:32 AM

this is horrible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ5TajZYW6Y

9/17/2011 12:14:35 AM

^^lol, that would have been epic

9/17/2011 12:15:51 AM

its like i just walked into harris teeter

don't click, don't get rick-rolled

9/17/2011 12:16:07 AM

Quote :

"Someone suggested he blacked out for a few seconds, I don't know why I believe this. I think it's because engine problems don't make the planes fly off course"

Wikipedia said he had completed a lap and then called out a mayday signal right before pulling out of the race and crashing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Reno_Air_Races_crash

9/17/2011 12:26:44 AM

sounds like mech failure to me, for sure

9/17/2011 12:27:49 AM

Itt, we learn that jaybee thinks people are arguing likelyhood of dying in a car wreck than a plane wreck, when in reality they are arguing fatality rate per mile traveled. Not wreck rate per mile traveled, nor survival rate of said wrecks. Dumbass

9/17/2011 12:35:25 AM

Quote :

"3 dead, 56 injured in horrific Reno air show crash"

This is completely amazing to me. How the hell can so many people get so close to an airplane shrapnel bomb, actually GET hit by something... and live to tell about?

9/17/2011 12:43:37 AM

^ Reports are odd. Saw that witnesses said it was just gore everywhere. Few people cut in half, many people with missing limbs....and then only 3 were killed on contact.


Facebook update from Yesterday.

I'm guessing that crew is gonna feel like shit

Quote :

"Jimmy Leeward Had the day off from racing today. The crew spent the day tweaking the Ghost for tomorrow's Gold Heat Race. We'll be starting fourth."

Creepy reading those. They're like "Goooo Jimmy!" and then "WTF, RIP Jim. Prayers to all involved"



[Edited on September 17, 2011 at 12:50 AM. Reason : ]

9/17/2011 12:47:28 AM

They did a fine job tweeking it to be a ghost

9/17/2011 12:56:17 AM

Quote :

"puck_it TWW is art. 13552 Posts user info edit post Itt, we learn that jaybee thinks people are arguing likelyhood of dying in a car wreck than a plane wreck, when in reality they are arguing fatality rate per mile traveled. Not wreck rate per mile traveled, nor survival rate of said wrecks. Dumbass "

and we also learn that I said how the argument is typically stated, which is what you stated... and at a party in about 2005 we learn that puck_it is a 4 foot tall weird little bitch that was too scared to talk to a girl he thought was hot and acted like a 10 year old and everyone was laughing at him the entire time

9/17/2011 1:09:42 AM

lol

damn

9/17/2011 1:15:13 AM

No time to run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNtERSeYMUM

[Edited on September 17, 2011 at 7:06 AM. Reason : Air races should be banned.]

9/17/2011 7:03:35 AM

^Fuck that and fuck you you pussy little troll.

I go to a shit ton of air shows, and accept the risk. I was at the Winston-Salem Air Show last weekend, and weather permitting, I will be at the Virginia Beach Air Show next weekend. Yes this stuff sucks, but there are TONS of air shows a year, just like their are tons of tractor pulls, drag races, NASCAR/F1/Indy races, etc. Spectators have died at all of them, and they keep on going.

This year has actually been a shitty year for airshows. If ya'll followed more than the headlines they have had several deaths involving performers, but this was the first that involved spectators. One of the Red Arrows went down in a field killing the pilot, Tod Green lost his balance while doing a stunt going from a Stearman to Otto the Helicopter and plummeted 300 feet to his death, and Bryan Jensen lost control while in an flat spin in his Pitts and crashed in Kansas City, dying as well. So that one weekend had 3 performers die. That said, there are hundreds of these shows a year, I've probably been to a dozen or more at this point and never seen anything that remotely scared me. Usually its more disappointment because they have a light come on and abort their show. That happened early this season with an F-22 demo, and again last weekend at Winston with one of the F-104s. I was disappointed, but glad they were being cautious and not risking their lives and the lives of all spectators, neighbors, etc. by pressing on anyways.

Oh and post if you find anymore photos of the plane itself. This was all I could find, but apparently some other photographers I know said they saw pictures with the whole trim tab completely gone, or maybe even the whole left elevator. The design of Ghost always made me nervous because Jimmy cut off part of the wings, making them extremely short. It makes it faster, but also makes it harder to control. Here is the one photo I have found so far:

http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/s/s/15/media15/2011/Sep/16/LiveLeak-dot-com-d9b10fe164b5-renocrashstill1.jpg?d5e8cc8eccfb6039332f41f6249e92b06c91b4db65f5e99818bad6904f42dbd0e2ae&ec_rate=300

[Edited on September 17, 2011 at 8:10 AM. Reason : Can't embed]

9/17/2011 8:04:04 AM

Pikey revealed? Still am scared. Who's the sucker, I made twenty bucks of that

And its 4'1 and 3/4". 4' is your goddamn waist size.

[Edited on September 17, 2011 at 8:33 AM. Reason : excellent driver]

9/17/2011 8:28:02 AM

wat

What do I have to do with this?

9/17/2011 8:50:05 AM