I've heard that sometime in the 1950's a military airplane crashed in a river in Pittsburgh, PA. any info?
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Apparently it was a B-52 bomber:\n\nUncovering One Of Pittsburgh's Most Fascinating Unsolved Mysteries\nB-52 Crashed Into Mon River\nRick Earle, Target 11 Investigator\n\nPOSTED: 5:38 p.m. EST January 31, 2003\nPITTSBURGH -- Friday afternoon, people gathered on the Homestead Highlevel Bridge to remember the day, exactly 47 years ago, when a B-25 crashed in the Mon River. The Air Force said the plane was on a routine training mission from Nevada to Harrisburg when the pilot simply ran out of gas.\n\nTwo people drowned, four survived but no trace of the plane was ever found. Some says it was carrying top secret cargo and the government removed it; others say it's still in the river. Target 11 tracked down one man who claims he recovered pieces of the plane. \n\nThe B-25 came in over the Homestead Highlevel Bridge and the pilot crashed into the river just after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Two years later, Bub Crain was working on the river when he says his crew pulled up pieces of the aircraft. Crain said, "Right in the corner is where we dug up the parts of that airplane."\n\nCrain made the discovery in 1958, two years after the B-25 went down in the Mon River. Crain was installing a pipeline when he pulled up the parts. "We had sectionals, flying suits, 32-volt heated flying suits. We dug up a window and aluminum's parts," Crain said. "I showed them to the general contractor and they said you're getting paid to lay pipe stick to it. So we kicked it over board, put it back we're it came from."\n\nCrain believes the parts were from the B-25 and he believes the plane remains in the river. Crain said, "It was pushed down in the mud. It's not possible that it was taken out without anyone knowing about it." But some like Ed Kelly believe the military came in under the cover of darkness, cut up the plane and removed it on barges.\n\nKelly said, "It's impossible for that much metal to be in the river 13 feet deep. That's not showing a wing a tail an engine. Something's not showing. Where did the engines go?"\nHelly was the wing commander of the Civil Air Patrol. He suspects the plane was carrying a bomb or chemical agent. He says that's the why the pilot opted for the river.\n\nChannel 11's Rick Earle asked, "Do you ditch it in the river?" Kelly said, "No." Earle asked, "Why not?" Kelly said, "First the chance of drowning, second it's cold as Billy Bob in January. You want to pick a piece of dry land."\nAndy Masich is the president and C.E.O. of the John Heinz History Center. The center has joined forces with the B-25 Recovery Group to try to locate the plane.\n\nThey've used metal detectors and sonar and last summer, divers went in to the river but so far, no sign of the plane. And adding to the mystery, the military, after 47 years, still refuses to release the entire accident report.\nMasich said, "It's definitely a strange story and it does make you wonder if the government is holding something back from us."\n\nThe History Center is working with state lawmakers to try to pressure the air force into releasing the entire report. An Air Force spokesperson told Channel 11 News that the report is considered confidential. The only person on board that plane still living is the pilot. Channel 11 News attempted to contact him, but he didn't return our calls.\n- http://www.wpxi.com/target11/1949752/detail.html\n\nRead read more at this link-\nhttp://pittsburgh.about.com/od/transportation/a/b25_bomber_2.htm
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Nope!  But I found a message in a bottle on Lake Erie once!  My guess was that it was from an older lady who had lost her husband.  It was so sad and romantic at the same time!  Just about everyone on the boat was in tears!
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It is a triangle area of sea off the Florida/ Miami coast where planes and ships have disappeared, and people. Apparently the magnetic force field inside the triangle messes with radars on planes etc, so the pilots get confused, veer off their course and crash. Other boats have come through the triangle without any crew. Others claim it is a gateway into another world, but I guess we will never know unless we actually go through it.
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The fiasco on the interstate caused me to miss my flight. The formidable fortress stopped the attack by the Egyptians. The seeds of the plant always germinate during spring. The conflict escalated into war when the Soviets fired a nucleur missile. The cheerleaders were effervescent when their team scored a touchdown.\n\n\nHope it helps...
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Honestly, those who know arent telling. There was no wreckage to indicate it was a 757, the damage of the building was inconsistant with that of a 757, and the manuvering required was well beyond the capabilities of a large commercial airliner flown by a novice pilot who prior had only flown small planes. Those who report it also report outragous claims like it flew right over them, no more than twenty-five feet, when in reality they would've been blown off the highway. Those who report seeing larger aircraft were likely influenced by reports on the attacks in New York.
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When I was a student pilot, my flight instructor and I were flying from McAllen, TX back to Harlingen,TX. We spotted a small tornado below and to the right of us about five miles. We watched it for several minutes and reported it to the Flight Service Station in the area. It even made the news that night. That was in 1967.
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http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesonet/getobext.php?wfo=pih&sid=KLWV&num=168&raw=0\nwill give you hour-by-hour observations for the past week for the closest National Weather Service reporting station in the area, which is Lawrenceville-Vincennes International Airport.\n\nIt appears your station pressure was 29.496 inches of Mercury and falling.\n\nHope I was of help to you,\nGod bless,\nShane
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If he was on a raft for a month that would have been a news worthy item. This would have been in the local paper. The bad thing is most papers are out of business, but you might find out info at the library. Do you know when he was shot down or when he was found??The problem is that most of the service records were burnt in a fire in St Louis in the 70s. You can try to get his records if you are a close relative.
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I'm not sure exactly what information you need, so I'm giving you the search result I got, and I hope you can find what you are looking for:\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=1954+68th+bomb+wing+656+bomb+sqdn+2nd+A.F&spell=1
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Try as I might, I was unable to locate very many actual pictures, though there is much reference to this obviously important WWII facility.\n\nMy suggestion is to contact some of the people whose email addresses appear at:\nhttp://www.wingsoverkansas.com/about/contributors.asp\n\nWings Over Kansas seems to have a lot of information about the entire pre - post war efforts in Wichita, and by personally contacting some of the historians and contributors, you could very well glean more information from them than is readily available on the web.\n\nGood luck with your search.  If I run across more, I will post it here.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer\n\nIt took a hundred years, but this week, Congress got it right - Ohio, not North Carolina, is the birthplace of aviation.\n\nThe U.S. House voted 378-3 for a resolution naming Dayton, Ohio - home of Wilbur and Orville Wright - as the place where aviation was born. The measure passed the Senate late Thursday on a voice vote.\n\nDaytonians have known that for nearly a century, but North Carolinians have been making the claim that powered flight was born on an Outer Banks hill called Kitty Hawk, where the Wright brothers experimented and made their first flight on Dec. 17, 1903.\n\nNaturally, the three votes against the House resolution were cast by North Carolina congressmen.\n\nOhio - where the phrase "Birthplace of Aviation" is etched on license plates - was where flight was born, Buckeyes claim, because the Wright brothers made their plans and constructed their aircraft in their bicycle shop on Dayton's West Side.\n\nOhio is also the state that has produced the most astronauts, 24 in all, including John Glenn and Neil Armstrong.
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there is a picture in the Port Elizabeth Herald of a comet landing in the ocean,see late May issues. No word about the military though.
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Ah, the Spruce Goose was the largest airPLANE ever built. More on that  story below. This person asked about the largest airCRAFT ever built, which would be a dirigible.  "Ended in disaster" must mean the Hindenberg!  I am not sure if the Hindenberg was the absolute largest dirigible, but it certainly was one of the largest. The Hindenberg burst into flames upon docking in New Jersey someplace in the 30's and pretty much ended the Dirigible business. That incident is where we get the phrase "Oh, the humanity!"  which is often mocked, in my opinion inappropriately. That is an interesting whole story itself but is off topic.\n\n\nThe Spruce Goose: During WWII, metals were in short supply;  all those battleships and overseas ore shipping routes inaccessible, I suppose. So, Howard Hughes' aircraft company was encouraged by the government to try and build aircraft from alternative materials.  Wood is light and strong, so it was a natural thought.\n\nProblem is, one piece of wood can have a very different density and even strength than another. Doing the structural analysis on such a craft and keeping it balanced is an absolute NIGHTMARE.  I don't know if the spruce goose itself ever flew but it was a prototype and the conclusion of this engineering study was that this wood idea was impractical for large aircraft. \n\nNo doubt you can find more details on The Hindenberg, The Spruce Goose and "Oh, the Humanity!" in wikipedia.\n\n(This is not quite an Astronomy question.)
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I'd think that birds that land on water by skidding on the surface before stopping might have inspired the conventional aircraft landing made with shallow descent and rollout. On the other hand people like the Wrights may have just figured that out for themselves. \nSome landing styles not yet emulated by planes: Braking to a stop and grabbing hold of a branch, and diving into the water!
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I'm very much a realist, but I have one story I cannot expalin.\n\nI was watching what I thought was a helicopter off the coast of Maine.  It was hovering and slowly moving around an island roughly seven miles away.  It was late afternoon, so the light was fantastic and the air, for once, was very clear.\n\nThis object slid back and forth maybe 3000-4000 feet high (triangulate from the distance) and then it did two strange things:  it sort of oscillated in a tight radius back and forth, like lint getting sucked down a bath drain, and then it just winked out of sight.  It didn't exactly disappear all at once, rather, it kind of took a moment or two.  I thought it might had slipped into a fog bank, but there was no fog; I could see distant color in the sky.\n\nI don't think about this experience so much anymore.  But I do get chills when I do recall that day.  I have no explanation, and I offer no theories.  But that's my story.
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It's still there, but now we know the most likely culprit of all the troubles there was caused because of a huge methane gas field in that area.  When the gas is released and it comes to the surface of the water, the water density is changed and ships are no longer able to stay afloat.  When it comes to Aircraft, it also changes the density of the air, and the aircraft fall out of the sky because they no longer are able to obtain lift.  I can't remember what they said it exactly does to the primitive navigation systems, but essentially it screws them up to.  \nNowadays we know what to be looking for when in that area, and how to avoid trouble.
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hope this site helps, not sure what kind of aircraft you want to find, but here is a link