The video link is a jpg.
Good pic. Flaps/slats down, nose cocked up...the Lawn Dart is going slooow to stay behind the Hercules. C-130s can fly fast enough to do IFR with such as Hornets, but must be a speed restriction when they have the ass end open.
Very cool video. Thanks.
F-18 pilot needed a bathroom break
LOL The last clip, with the single prop, flying slow, past the 15th sign was hilarious.
Anyone remember the full name of Kato, the 1997 Japanese photographer who accidentally pickled a fuel tank off an F14 south of Japan?
He was sitting with my C-2 aircrewman. Wearing gunners belts dangling feet out into the wind at 180 knots (max ramp open speed) over Fuji and the Izu peninsula. Alvin on ICS says, “He’s in”, and they had to back up out of the way for the F18 (1997 baby hornet - it was DCAG I think).
I have a USS INDY / CV62 book in another country by Kato but can’t find it online. Hard to find on line because his military picture books are all in Japanese.
Anyone remember Kato the photographer? I think he visited the Yokota guys too.