one.
One B-17 and one P-63 have been lost
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Most of us probably heard about how Japanese pilots were suicidally ramming American heavy bombers. Not a Japanese plane nor (of course) anything voluntary, but unfortunately we got a close demonstration of how that may have looked like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Wings_Over_Dallas_airshow_mid-air_collision
On November 12, 2022, two World War II-era aircraft, a B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra, collided mid-air and crashed during the Wings Over Dallas airshow at Dallas Executive Airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdek9VV0_Zo
There were six persons on the aeroplanes.
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That sadly reminds me of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramstein_air_show_disaster -
@Cernel how sad.
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It appears that is all the P-63’s pilot’s fault: what I understand is that the pilot encroached on the air-space of the B-17, and, upon noticing it, he hastily tried to go back within his fly zone, but, in so manoeuvring, he made himself blind (due to the limited visibility afforded to him by the aircraft) to what was on his flight path, so he crashed into the B-17 without even seeing it.
I hope the families of the men who died in the B-17 will have a fair monetary compensation.
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So sad. :(
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