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Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the town. For the German "Tanz-Metall" band who took their name from the town's airshow disaster, see Rammstein. Jump to: navigation, search Industrial metal is a musical genre which draws elements from industrial music and heavy metal music. ... In music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of a musical arrangement. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rammstein is a German band formed in 1993. ... Ramstein is a town in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, also, but not only known for being the home of Ramstein Air Base, a United States military airfield. In the Ramstein airshow disaster of 1988, 70 people died at this airbase after an Aermacchi 339 trainer aircraft of the Italian aerobatic team the Frecce Tricolori collided with the tail of another similar aircraft and careened onwards into spectators during an airshow. It has been reported that the pressure setting on the aircraft had been incorrectly input so that the altimeter gave an inaccurate reading to the pilot flying towards the crowd-line. The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... Jump to: navigation, search C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane at Ramstein Air Base. ... In one of the worlds worst airshow disasters on August 28, 1988, three jets from the Italian Air Force display team, Frecce Tricolori, collided in mid-air and one crashed into the crowd during an airshow at Ramstein Air Base near Ramstein, Germany. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A trainer is a training aircraft used to develop piloting, navigational or weapon-aiming skills in flight crew. ... Soon after aircraft were invented, pilots realised that they could be used as part of a flying circus to entertain people or impress others in what was termed aerobatics. ... Frecce Tricolori (Three-coloured Arrows) is the precision aerobatic demonstration team for the Italian Air Force. ... The Utterly Butterly wing-walking display team flying Boeing Stearman PT-17 biplanes An airshow is an event at which aviators display their flying skills, normally to the public, but occasionally to invited guests, or employees and their families only. ... An altimeter is an active instrument used to measure the altitude of an object above a fixed level. ... Categories: Germany geography stubs | Towns in Rhineland-Palatinate

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	Ramstein (126 words) Ramstein is a town in Germany, known for being the home of Ramstein Air Base, a United States military airfield. In the Ramstein airshow disaster of 1988, 70 people died at this airbase after an Aermacchi 339 trainer aircraft of the Italian aerobatic team the Frecce Tricolori[?] collided with the tail of another similar aircraft and careered onwards into spectators during an airshow. It has been reported that the pressure setting on the aircraft had been incorrectly input so that the altimeter gave an inaccurate reading to the pilot flying towards the crowd-line. Ramstein Air Base and the Kaiserslautern Military Community (KMC) (1511 words) Ramstein, Kapaun and Sembach, are predominately Air Force communities which share their services with the other military members of the KMC. Ramstein Air Base is a great example of international collaboration--designed by French engineers, constructed by German contractors, and operated by the US Air Force. Ramstein, host community for Ramstein AB, was first mentioned in historical documents in 1215.
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