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B-52 bomber crashed at more than a kilometre per minute at US Air Force base (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

90kph is very slow for a flight speed, but stupidly fast for a decent speed. That is about half the speed of a skydiver free falling. That, added on to the airspeed, would be a very bad situation for any plane.