Posted on 07/28/2025 9:04:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
Pro tip: Planes can't fly in water.
Hoy en el Festival Internacional Aéreo de Gijón podía haber ocurrido una desgracia, si no es por la pericia del Capitán Botana a los mandos del F18 Superhornet. 🙌🏻
Se comentaba que algún pájaro pudo haber tenido la culpa. ¿Qué opináis?@GijonAirshow @A3Noticias @lanuevaespana pic.twitter.com/PkzU07kxU3— VISUAIR (@Visuair) July 27, 2025
I'm glad Captain Botana was able to recover that spin at the Gijon Sir Show on Sunday, but holy moly that was close.
Another angle:
Gijon Airshow, Spain F-18 low pass yesterday.
Anyone want to share what they believe happened here?
📹: u/FirebirdWS6dude pic.twitter.com/4mE6mMYG39— Turbine Traveller (@Turbinetraveler) July 28, 2025
It's one thing if the Blue Angels do it:
Check out the photographer who had the coolest Blue Angels shot of all time
I once had a Blue Angel pilot give me a salute from his F-18 while I was providing security as a Civil Air Patrol cadet at a local air show. NOTTHEBEE.COM
https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-the-photographer-who-had-the-coolest-blue-angel-experience-of-all-time But I'm not so sure about the Spanish Blue Angels...
(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...
“No quiero.”
Ahora!!!!
Its versatile. I was shocked at the last airshow I went to a few years ago... An F-18 was refueling another F-18 at 300’. I didn’t know the could be set up as tankers.
You can see the birds in the video.
I used to work on A-7 Corsairs, and they used the D-704 external “buddy store” which looks like a big, fat drop tank but, in addition to fuel, has a hydraulically driven hose with a basket that can be used to fuel other planes. They would mount that on one wing pylon, and put three more fuel drop tanks on, and use that as a “KA-7E” Tanker.
I wonder if they still use those things.
The ones we used back in the Seventies required constant maintenance, as I believe they were worn out from over-use and low budget capability to replace them.
We hated working on them because they were so curmudgeonly, I think!
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