Crash and Burn

After a short diversionary break, Vista-Vue Lounge is back! Let's take another journey in the way-back time machine to late November, 1984. The engineers at the FAA developed a nifty type of jet fuel that wasn't supposed to explode and burn upon impact (or so they thought). A full scale test was setup using a retired Boeing 720 jetliner. It was fully outfitted with crash test dummies, instrumentation, and probably the ultimate in radio control! A test pilot flew the aircraft remotely (sitting in front of a ground-based simulator), and purposely crashed it. As you can see from these two CBS news reports, the fireball was spectacular, albeit unintended!