Aircraft pics

[47Hammer]

The fuel was on sale today!

[47Hammer]

Going up? This Really is a neat shot.



or not.

[47Hammer]

Hey buddy! that was close.



I'm busted here..



I'm out of here...

[47Hammer]

Here's a note to all the guys and gals in New York.

[47Hammer]

Talk about a flyby, this guy is in trouble.

[427TJ]

Yes, he did get punished but the Navy is much more tolerant about such things than the USAF is. Pull that kind of stunt in the Air Force and you're out the door.

Bart, you are out of control with all these great pics! Great stuff! I might have to dig through my archives and post a few.

Oh, and I sent the Thunderbird mishap video to Bruce for him to post. Stay tuned.

x 100

[mockingbird812]

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The story I heard on this one was that the pilot had set his altimeter for Nellis AFB, the Thunderbirds' home base, instead of Mountain Home AFB, ID, where this crash occurred. The difference in airfield elevation between Nellis and Mountain Home is significant and by the time the pilot realized his error he was about to hit the ground. He was performing the back-half of a low-altitude loop (basically) and he rolled-over and pulled toward the ground at too low an altitude. He realized he did not have sufficient altitude to complete the loop and correctly ejected about two seconds before the jet hit the ground. The photo shows the jet with its nose "up" but it's actually "mushing" toward the ground in a near-stalled condition. The pilot tried to pull hard enough to avoid impact but saw that it was hopeless. I have the cockpit video and I'll try to attach it--it's pretty spectacular. Oh, and his 'chute deployed just before he hit the ground and he jumped up and made a "touchdown" gesture to the crowd, who all cheered at his survival. Needless to say, he was removed from the Thunderbirds and put on ground duty at the Pentagon--I think I had heard he was a general's son but I'm not sure. As British pilots would say in the old days: bad show!

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"Thunderbirds Knock It Off!"

[427TJ]

That's it, thanks Sam. (I forgot about YouTube--duh!)

[427TJ]

Forget the wrecked 737--look at those gas prices!!!



I think this was about 5 years ago.

[427TJ]

Sunrise, December 1944, somewhere in England. Crews look eastward at the contrails from the bomber stream and its escort fighters as they head east to bomb Germany. Try to imagine what all those piston engines sounded like up high heading for Germany. Few of those boys were older than 25. That's a P-51D Mustang.