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Dude, where's my tail?
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Sure hope the AF's educational films have improved since then!
Here's a news report on that Stratofortress, which was actually being used for testing "structural stress during turbulence". I think the empennage failed the test, and turbulence won. Date: 10 January 1964
https://www.criticalpast.com/video/...tical-stabilizer-in-tail_pilot-Charles-Fisher
Note that just three days after this incident, another 52 lost its tail during turbulence, and sadly, the aircraft crashed in western Maryland; three fatalities, two survivors. Fortunately the two nuclear weapons aboard remained "quiet".
https://www.buzzonefour.com/
Here's a news report on that Stratofortress, which was actually being used for testing "structural stress during turbulence". I think the empennage failed the test, and turbulence won. Date: 10 January 1964
https://www.criticalpast.com/video/...tical-stabilizer-in-tail_pilot-Charles-Fisher
Note that just three days after this incident, another 52 lost its tail during turbulence, and sadly, the aircraft crashed in western Maryland; three fatalities, two survivors. Fortunately the two nuclear weapons aboard remained "quiet".
https://www.buzzonefour.com/
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They were likely made with 16MM Bolex, or in the case of the air-to-air footage a wind-up B&H 8MM.
By the time I got there, we were using 16MM Arriflex MoPic and Nagra audio tape recorders. Still had to use a slate "clapper" to sync the sound. And there was an entire movie studio at Norton AFB (where that opening scene was shot).
By the time I got there, we were using 16MM Arriflex MoPic and Nagra audio tape recorders. Still had to use a slate "clapper" to sync the sound. And there was an entire movie studio at Norton AFB (where that opening scene was shot).