REAL MAN TRUCKWORKS & SURVIVAL
GENERAL TOPICS => Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant => Topic started by: Flyin6 on March 18, 2015, 10:18:19 PM
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http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=19448
One of the F16 passes goes right by the parking ramp I was flying off of in Kandahar. I think the F16 is a Dutch aircraft taken in 2008 when they first got there.
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Wow......ok, gotta ask, in a movie or two, I've seen little birds as you call them, fly inside buildings/hangers......is that possible or is it special effects?
My brain tells me that turbulence might make it impossible, but what do I know, never even ridden in one! :o
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Wow......ok, gotta ask, in a movie or two, I've seen little birds as you call them, fly inside buildings/hangers......is that possible or is it special effects?
My brain tells me that turbulence might make it impossible, but what do I know, never even ridden in one! :o
Way possible
Maybe not practical...or smart
But I know a guy who's done that and a lot more than just once...
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Don't think they had the SE back in the day of top gun to do i that good.
Sure you guys have seen more than me, but I have seen a few things out near the Chocolate mountains near Salton Sea.
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Those chocolate mountains are all part of a huge Marine range complex. Guys fly in from Yuma, Tustin, Miramar, and Pendleton. Fired on it myself throughout the years. And at night the Salton sea is a place to practice NVG low level flight. It's a flat (obviously) horizonless place. Makes you leave finger prints in the cyclic and circular bite marks in the lower seat cushion!
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My good friend LT Tony Frye flew the AWACS on the Nimitz class Abraham Lincoln. when I was about 14 or 15, he came by for a dinner with his family and ours and showed us a little home video. I may get some details wrong here so don't beat me up too bad, but they were out on maneuvers and had a LOT of leftover ord. he had at LEAST a full half hour of the best water/fireworks show I have ever seen, in person or on film. At the end of the video, you could hear a lot of the crewmen whooping an hollering like crazy until the jet engines completely destroyed the mic on his camcorder as two navy jets performed a supersonic fly by, so close that when the sound barrier was broken, the shock wave buckled a portion of the wall of the ship, sending a rivet flying across the cargo bay where the planes were stored, luckily missing everyone inside. Come to find out, then Capt. now Adm. Robert F. Willard was a fan of this sort of thing and didn't mind the incident. He piloted the Mig28 in a lesser known 80's movie, Top Gun I think it was called... I guess the pattern wasn't full in this case.
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Some of the flybys I saw out there where scary. C141 to OV10 (I love the OV10), gunships and all the lot. Lived near El Toro when my dad was still in and saw alot. They even had a rocket plant out back in the hills and I saw rockets inside ET that where not supposed to be there! I was allowed to "play" in a full size mock up F4 and everything worked but the engines!! What a ride for a 10 year old that loved planes.
Coolest thing I saw though was a Bear landing at ET. Escorted by a pair of F4s and the weirdest thing I ever heard. Is it true they could actually tell what it was buy the prop signature on the radar??
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I've not flown, but number two with the 4 engine plane that close to the ground seems to take the cake. I suspect that thing does not react quickly to input and mistakes would be hard to correct at that altitude and speed.
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I've not flown, but number two with the 4 engine plane that close to the ground seems to take the cake. I suspect that thing does not react quickly to input and mistakes would be hard to correct at that altitude and speed.
That's a converted Boeing 707 the Air Force uses as a tanker, Awacs, and other radar and sensor platform