![]() It was followed in September 2020 by the Science Fiction sequel Space Crew that puts players in control of a spaceship as they battle their way across the galaxy. ![]() The game was released on PC through Steam on October 19th, 2017, and was then ported to Playstation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on July 10th, 2018. Later DLC enabled the player to play an American campaign manning B17 flying fortress. In the game you'll manage the crew of a World War 2 bomber based off the Avro Lancaster, flying missions against Nazi Germany. Notice the missing hatch on top of the aircraft.Bomber Crew is a Roguelike video game made by Runner Duck in the vein of FTL: Faster Than Light. Top image: the B-1B from Dyess AFB after the emergency landing in Texas. The B-1 incident led to a temporary stand-down of the whole B-1 fleet as all ejection seats were inspected. Heather Wilson concluded her recounting of the heroic B-1B crew’s actions by acknowledging, “The courage it took and the valor represented by that aircraft commander who decided, ‘We are going to try for all of us to make it, rather than sacrifice the one guy who can’t get out.’ Those are the men and women who choose to wear the uniform of the United States Air Force.” Composite image made from FB/Time Fischer/Midland Reporter photographs that show the missing hatch.ĭr. The crew recovered the aircraft to Midland without injury or further damage to the aircraft, saving every member on board and the 400 million-dollar B-1B. Even the impact of a normal landing could have triggered the ejection seat to ignite its rockets and leave the aircraft. The pilot and flight crew flew the B-1B the entire way to Midland while it was on fire with a missing hatch, had no cockpit pressurization and an armed ejection seat that could fire at any moment without warning. Having cancelled the ejection of the crew from the burning bomber, the aircraft commander declared an emergency and diverted to Midland International Air and Space Port between Midland and Odessa, Texas, over 150 miles from their original base at Dyess AFB. And not knowing whether the next piece of turbulence is going to cause you to launch.” Wondering whether ― it’s like pulling out the pin on a grenade and holding it as you come in to land. ![]() First the airman who’s sitting on an ejection seat where he’s pulled the fire pins ― and sits there for the next 25 minutes. Secretary Wilson told reporters on Monday that after the ejection sequence was initiated in the B-1B, “That did two things. Wilson told reporters that, “Within two seconds of knowing that had happened the aircraft commander says, ‘Cease ejection. Other than having a fire in the cockpit, this was a worse-case scenario.ĭr. The Offensive Systems Operator was trapped under an open hatch on an armed ejection seat in a burning aircraft. But the Offensive Systems Operator ejection seat did not fire. When the crewmember pulled the ejection seat handles the hatch above the OSO’s ejection seat exploded off the aircraft. When the aircraft commander ordered the ejection of the crew from the burning aircraft over Texas the first crewmember to actuate their ejection seat was the right/rear seat on the aircraft, the Offensive Systems Operator. Individual ejection seats were used on the operational B-1B. Original test B-1As were equipped with a crew escape capsule. The ACES II is a proven and effective ejection seat with well over 600 successful crew escapes and the lowest frequency of user injuries of any ejection seat in history. As a result, four lighter weight individual Weber Aircraft ACES II (Advanced Crew Ejection Seat II) ejection seats were installed in production B-1Bs. The escape capsule was not engineered into production B-1B bombers when the program was renewed in 1982 by the Reagan administration. The early B-1A prototypes were originally designed with a crew escape capsule that rocketed off the fuselage as one unit. The final item on the emergency checklist is: “Eject”. It was likely calm but businesslike in the cockpit. The crew initiated the emergency checklist procedures for extinguishing a fire in an engine. They are also close to the aircraft fuel tanks. The number two and number three engines are the closest to the complex apparatus that moves the B-1B’s variable geometry swept wings. According to credible reports, it was likely the number three engine on the aircraft’s right wing located closest to the fuselage. The names of the crew have not yet been released.Ī fire warning light illuminated in the cockpit. The aircraft’s young crew of four, the senior aircraft commander- likely the instructor, the copilot, an offensive systems operator, and the defensive systems operator are on board. A B-1B supersonic heavy bomber from the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas was returning from a routine training sortie on May 1.
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