Talk:1966 NASA T-38 crash
Latest comment: 2 years ago by N9XTN in topic Flight Ceiling?
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Reviewer: Resident Mario (talk · contribs) 04:17, 13 July 2012 (UTC) Nice, short article. ResMar 04:17, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
- Lead
- The first sentence should be reconfigured to the more standard "The X was when Y happened".
- Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:36, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
- The lead should mention the weather conditions at the time of the accident.
- Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:36, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
- Infobox
- I don't think "Crashed into building" is an accident type in the way Engine Failure on Take-Off or Controlled flight into terrain would be.
- The exact time of the crash is not mentioned past the infobox, and should be cited there.
- Added to article. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:36, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
- The crash
- By the roof, do you mean the building roof, or the plane roof?
- Re-worded to make this unambiguous. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:36, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
- Investigation and aftermath
- What do you mean by "predictably"?
- Delete word. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:36, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
- All issues addressed. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:36, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Flight Ceiling?
editThe description of the accident contains this sentence:
"Weather at Lambert Field in St. Louis was poor, with rain, snow, and fog, broken clouds at 800 feet (240 m) and a flight ceiling of 1,500 feet (460 m), requiring an instrument approach."
That doesn't make any sense. Flight ceiling is another term for "absolute ceiling" which is how high an aircraft is capable of level flying and in the T-38's case is 50,000. It is not dependent on weather. I believe the sentence author misinterpreted a reference in the source to cloud ceiling, which is the height of the base of the lowest cloud that covers more than half the sky.
I'm going to change the text and the link. --2601:602:9A00:3526:8C03:BE17:480D:81C4 (talk) 12:55, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
- Sure. Go ahead. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:03, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
- If the sky was broken at 800 ft, that would be the cloud ceiling. Perhaps it was broken at 800 ft and overcast at 1500 ft? N9XTN (talk) 01:08, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Aftermath
editDoes there need to be so much detail of the aftermath in the heading section ? Can't that be left in the main body (where it is duplicated) ? -- Beardo (talk) 02:50, 30 April 2021 (UTC)