[ARC5] B-17 Crash Near Hartford CT

[Mark K3MSB]

I doubt they did, that's just my guess.   Here an interesting question.
Everr watch "Ice Pilots NWT"  -- they have several "GoPro" cameras on the
aircraft.   I wonder if the Nine-o-Nine did?

Mark K3MSB

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 3:48 PM Doran Platt <jeepp at comcast.net> wrote:

> Good question.  The thing is, having a voice is one thing.  Having a data
> recorder is quite another. No ARINC data bus, no data.  In older acft,
> there is no real central point source for any sort of information, unless
> one has a flight-test instrumentation package permanently installed.  Short
> of that, ATC data capture, to include ADS, may be the only venue.  Guess
> we'll all see the films at 11, so to speak.
>
> Jeep K3HVG
>
> On October 3, 2019 at 3:01 PM frledda at att.net wrote:
>
>
> No! No flight data recorder!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net <arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
> Behalf
> Of Richard Knoppow
> Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2019 1:53 PM
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] B-17 Crash Near Hartford CT
>
> A question, since there are some active pilots on this list:
> was this aircraft equipped with a flight recorder? A google search does not
> provide definite information.
> So far there is a lot of speculation about why it went down but I think
> we will have to wait for the NTSB report to find out anything definite. The
> NTSB seems to be pretty good at this although very slow. We still have
> nothing definite on the fishing boat that burned off the Pacific coast. I
> expect it will be months before a full report is made on this aircraft.
> Meanwhile a great many questions present themselves without much data to
> answer them. We need facts, not anecdotes.
> To address the last sentence of the previous post, a failure of a single
> engine sounds more like running out of oil than running out of gas but that
> is also speculation.
> On 10/3/2019 11:13 AM, frledda at att.net wrote:
>
> I have red thousands of accident reports for the 40s, 50s and after.
> It was surprising to me to learn that aeronautical judgment was so poor
>
> those days.
>
> Things that we take for granted today were not those days.
>
> Engines were troublesome to say the least, and running out of gas was
> not un-usual.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> WB6KBL
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