I always got a kick out of this Spitfire pilot buzzing Alain de Cadenet. Luckily Alain was under the wing and not the prop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT46V3mmWRE
I always got a kick out of this Spitfire pilot buzzing Alain de Cadenet. Luckily Alain was under the wing and not the prop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT46V3mmWRE
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Damn cool Peter. I salute your uncle. Blue Angels pilots are SHIT HOT! The precision of formation flying was some of the most challenging, all consuming, and rewarding flying I have ever done. And many of those guys have become lifelong friends. Something about putting your full trust in someone off your left or right wing and not having to look over to "check" on them. Creates pretty strong bonds with such a risky venture. Plus, when performing low passes, you have to consider that your wingmen are at a lower altitude than you. I've flown with a couple of leaders who do not remember that and it is more than a little unsettling.
So here is one of my top 10 low flyby stories speaking of Edwards AFB. (Great pic Chuck). The Test Pilot School ran a civilian program for a while that allowed a select group of civilians to bring their unique aircraft (tail dragger, controllable pitch prop, ect) out for the TPS jet jockeys to fly for a week. Your payback - gas and oil, plus you got to burn a whole tank of fuel in a T-38! And my bonus, a couple of flying buddies were TPS instructors at ED at the time, so I got to fly front seat with one of the guys in back. I cannot tell you how cool that was...
So we get about done with boring holes in the sky (roll rates so fast that you bang your helmet on the canopy and 10,000 foot loops "riding the pebbles" all the way around) and head back for my three T/O and landings. Instructor friend asks if I want to do a flyby down the flyby line. This is a line across the dry lake bed that lines up with the center line of the long runway. It is for the Space Shuttle type stuff when using the lake bed for landing. We are coming down the line and I hear in my helmet, "hey Scotty, ya might want to pull it up a bit." Huh? Mind you I am used to T6 speeds and flyby altitude. Then I realize that I am BELOW the height of the tower and screaming along at 465 kts. A sneeze and we are a flame ball - well, not really, but you get the idea. So I give a little back pressure to climb up a couple hundred feet as we pass the tower.
And I have it all on video since he was in the back seat filming! Now that is freaking confidence in your front seater. I love watching that video and yes, we were doing 465 kts at about 100 feet AGL. Makes the damn hair stand up on the back of my neck just thinking about it. Hoorah
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1973.5 911T
Oh yeah? We'll I did a bitchin wheelie on my Stingray once!
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1974 911"S" - Silver
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On a Carrier in the IO a Russian Bear fly by with F-14 escorts.
We had tracked him from 200 miles out, then he flew it at 500 ft right through our starboard helo pattern.
. . . no plane!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10byeZV5jcc
Hang twenty
LoneRanger those are some wicked shots.
Here are 30+ war machines flying over Coronado a few years ago.
http://youtu.be/dp_6v-jTKEY?t=43s
A few enroute aircraft flying through my radar sector created exceptional memories.
Watching an SR71 at speed and altitude skip across your radar at 5 times the speed of anything else.
When Rutan at 6k feet crossed our airspace 90 miles from the end of his around the world flight.
Roger Grago's dad had some great fly by stories.
As a Navy base CO in So Cal late in WWII it was on his orders that every plane on his base that could fly would participate in Sunday formation flights over Los Angeles.
I bet back in the 1940s the public felt much safer seeing the force of airplanes every Sunday defending their skies.
Lake bed shot...liquid oxygen...kinda scary.
youtube.com/watch?v=9vGNvFvjkIE
Some Carrier recovery videos of our heros and a couple of (wave offs) unintended low fly bys.
Heros as in all concerned, pilot, LSO and all 6 thousand sailors on board that make it happen.
Any Navy brown shoe vets on this board?
https://www.facebook.com/carrierland...eos?fref=photo
. . . where the whole thing is a Close Call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWZG1nhgwgg
. . . and not just for the Riders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRWp9rhfS_0
HOO------yaaaah
Once in this life . . .
. . . . gotta-go, gotta-go, gotta-go-go-go
Last edited by LongRanger; 02-22-2015 at 07:53 PM.
saw this on Pelican but its worth posting here too.
http://imageevent.com/okbueno/mopic