Posted on 10/22/2014 5:27:47 AM PDT by do the dhue
Rich Shelton loves airplanes and San Francisco, which shows in all his beautiful photos. He was able to take this incredible image of a Blue Angels' F/A-18 zooming through the Golden Gate bridge at Fleet Week in San Francisco.
Check out 13/32 at the link. I am fascinated by the head angles of the pilots and WSOs.
Richard Bong and 3 other P-38 pilots were reported to have looped the loop around the Golden Gate bridge in 1942. For that, and flying down Market Street below rooftop height, and a few other unauthorized bits of flying fun, Bong missed deploying to England with his unit, and eventually went to the Pacific where he became the top U.S. ace of WWII, with 40 victories.
I like the music too!
Yeager used to do the same thing under the Charleston, WV bridges too.
Back in the day when he could just sign out an F-80 or F-86 for a weekend trip home.
that would make nice wallpaper, in my house too. :-)
The picture below is Fairchild Hall at the Blue Zoo.
Now imagine that peculiar structure in the middle of the gap towards the right end of the building not there.
Now imagine one of the Thunderbirds flying an F-4 through there.
Inverted.
Below the roofline.
I don't have to imagine it; I've seen it.
that would be awesome to see
Not sure whether I buy that or not. Carrier pilots deploy for 6-8 months every two years or so. The rest of the time is spent flying from land bases.
Friday nights hanging out in Virginia Beach can be really neat with all the F/A-18 traffic (formerly F-14 traffic. *sob*) in and out of Oceana.
Hope he had his burner’s on...
Is that extra guy the supervisor?
I used to commute down the ‘old’ 5 Freeway, past the now closed El Toro U.S.M.C. Air Station. Even though I knew they were coming, and I love the heck out of our Marines, the noise that a pair of FA-18’s made, just overhead, would scare the life out of me.
Read the book as a kid and watched the move AGAIN three or four weeks ago on TCM.
Back in the 60s I commuted down Texas 3 (Old Galveston Road) to my job at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Depending on the wind, the road was at the end of the take-off run for the F105s based at Ellington. They weren’t known as Thunderchiefs for nothing.
No problem - just start your high speed camera when you see it coming, then pick the one frame that has the jet centered.
Cool - I once asked some A-10 pilots for a bubble check and one flew between the radar and an HF-Antenna, below the line of sight of the two, and inverted...not an F-4, but still impressive.
That’s cool. I’m not a photographer, but now I see how he did it. thanks
Nope. That one is for observer and incentive flights. The Angels let reporters and maintenance crews fly from time-to-time for publicity. It also is used for training.
That must have been very cool. My hat is off to those fellows, what brave men! Thanks for your reply.
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