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B-52 bomber crashed at more than a kilometre per minute at US Air Force base (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 days ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

If we translate the bizarre unit of 1500 meters/minute out of anti-intellectual "I'm too stupid to divide by anything other than 10" units and into the figures the ship's instruments are calibrated in.

1500m/min works out to 4921 ft/min, which is what your typical VSI is calibrated in. For context, that's about where a 737 pilot would stop calling it a "descent" and start calling it a "dive." A 5,000 foot a minute descent is pretty quick, that's loss of cabin pressure descent territory. A more typical descent-from-cruise will be done at 3000 ft/min or so, which would take you from cruising at 30,000 feet to sea level in 10 minutes.

1500m/min works out to about 48 knots or so, that's what your typical ASI is calibrated in. I would be very surprised if you could get a B-52 moving that slow off the ground. That just happens to be the V~SO~ speed of a post-1980 Cessna 172. You can't get a Skyhawk going that slow, let alone a Stratofortress.

So yeah, the BUFF hit the dirt going faster than that.